From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:51:06 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Booting kernel from NAND flash on AT91SAM9 custom board using fsload In-Reply-To: <4D92531E.4030206@usask.ca> References: <4D920553.8040809@usask.ca> <4D9218D5.70608@usask.ca> <20110329125620.387153ac@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> <4D92428E.6030503@usask.ca> <20110329210517.B469CEDFFCF@gemini.denx.de> <4D92531E.4030206@usask.ca> Message-ID: <20110329215106.DF78AEDFFCF@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Nicholas Kinar, In message <4D92531E.4030206@usask.ca> you wrote: > > I would assume that the "fsload" command will also work with UBIFS as well. No. UBIFS uses it's own command set; you will use "ubifsload" instead. > In my custom system, At91Bootstrap is situated on SPI Dataflash. The > At91Bootstrap loads U-Boot from the same Dataflash. Then, I would like > U-Boot to load the Linux kernel from the UBI file system on a large 2 > GByte NAND flash. This should be much better than using JFFS2 on the > large NAND flash. Indeed. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de "One day," said a dull voice from down below, "I'm going to be back in form again and you're going to be very sorry you said that. For a very long time. I might even go so far as to make even more Time just for you to be sorry in." - Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_