From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:27:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130218182729.GC30970@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360354046-32392-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com>
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:07:21PM -0600, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing
> particular data. The current implementation of the NAND env support
> works around this in several ways such as storing a pointer to the
> sector in the OOB of the first sector (interferes with some CRC) or
> supporting a range of sectors (which unless it is huge is not
> guaranteed to be safe). None of these options address wear-leveling
> concerns or bad block handling.
>
> Accessing the u-boot env from UBI eliminates these concerns. However,
> it does require some of the basic settings for finding the UBI env to
> be in the default u-boot env.
>
>
> Joe Hershberger (5):
> ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi
> ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints
> mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env
> env: Add support for UBI environment
> env: Add redundant env support to UBI env
>
> README | 21 +++++
> common/Makefile | 1 +
> common/cmd_mtdparts.c | 23 +++++-
> common/cmd_nvedit.c | 7 +-
> common/cmd_ubi.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
> common/env_ubi.c | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 14 ++--
> drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h | 3 +-
> fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 2 +-
> include/environment.h | 18 +++++
> include/ubi_uboot.h | 3 +
> tools/env/fw_env.c | 6 +-
> 12 files changed, 387 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 common/env_ubi.c
Please add a patch 6 which enables all of these options for some board,
preferably the one you've been testing this with. Thanks!
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-08 20:07 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Joe Hershberger
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:45 ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:52 ` Stefan Roese
2013-03-20 10:07 ` Joe Hershberger
2013-03-20 10:14 ` Stefan Roese
2013-03-20 10:19 ` Joe Hershberger
2013-03-20 13:11 ` Tom Rini
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:53 ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:54 ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 11:00 ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-11 10:39 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Stefan Roese
2013-02-12 2:37 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-12 16:04 ` Tom Rini
2013-02-12 18:10 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-18 18:27 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/6] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-04-02 10:46 ` Stefan Roese
2013-04-02 18:25 ` Tom Rini
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/6] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/6] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/7] ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/7] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/7] ubi: ubifs: Add documentation for README Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 4/7] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/7] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 7/7] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-11 22:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Tom Rini
2013-04-12 6:19 ` Stefan Roese
2013-04-12 11:30 ` Tom Rini
2013-04-12 12:52 ` Joe Hershberger
2013-04-12 14:14 ` Stefan Roese
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