From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:50:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528055046.4258C38116A@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130527233735.GZ17119@bill-the-cat>
Dear Tom,
In message <20130527233735.GZ17119@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>
> > Where exactly is this 8 MB limit coming into play?
>
> In buffering the data. We cannot write a chunk of a file to a
> filesystem and then append to it, we don't have the API today.
Sorry, I still don't get it. Assuming I have a GiB of RAM, why can I
not load a 256 MiB file to RAM, and then write it to a file system?
I have definitely dealt with images and files bigger than 8 MiB in
thepast, so I really don't see where any buffer problem could be.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-24 16:39 [U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes Heiko Schocher
2013-05-24 16:42 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-24 17:12 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-26 7:09 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-27 7:02 ` Lukasz Majewski
2013-05-27 7:28 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-27 7:35 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-27 7:45 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-27 16:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-27 16:29 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-27 20:41 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-27 21:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-27 23:37 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 5:50 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-05-28 15:01 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 15:05 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-28 16:31 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-05-28 16:43 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-28 16:43 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-05-28 16:53 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-05-28 17:23 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 21:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-28 21:16 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-29 4:35 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-29 12:09 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 3:42 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-28 5:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-28 15:35 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 4:10 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-27 19:21 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-28 4:04 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-28 5:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-28 6:24 ` Heiko Schocher
2013-05-28 16:00 ` Tom Rini
2013-05-24 18:41 ` Wolfgang Denk
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