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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:26:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411222626.GK9914@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365453172-28746-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com>

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, 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.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Added documentation for UBI and UBIFS to README
> - Changed the silence to opt-in and added the options to README
> - Added comment to README about using _SILENCE_MSG options
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixed error handling bug that prevents fail-over to default env on error
> - Added curly braces on "multi-line" statements
> - Added extern consistently in header
> - Cleaned up the msg print silencing
> - Added curly braces on "multi-line" statements
> 
> Joe Hershberger (7):
>   ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning
>   ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi
>   ubi: ubifs: Add documentation for README
>   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

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 22:26 UTC|newest]

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
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     ` Tom Rini [this message]
2013-04-12  6:19       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment 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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