From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:26:26 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment In-Reply-To: <1365453172-28746-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com> References: <1364334811-3118-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com> <1365453172-28746-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com> Message-ID: <20130411222626.GK9914@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: