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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 23:25:52 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes
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Dear Tom,

In message <20130527204127.GY17119@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> This _may_ be the hard part for UBI.  When doing raw block writes for
> NAND/MMC, we're able to write them out quickly and thus support images
> larger than RAM.  But for filesystems we don't support that notion in
> general for write and so limit ourselves to 8MiB or so files.  Fine for

Where exactly is this 8 MB limit coming into play?

> the most part, but not fine for UBI.  It's possible that we can support
> this on UBI easier than we can on filesystems, but I just don't know.

I thought the only size limitation for images we can load is available
system RAM?  Is this not the case?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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