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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:50:46 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes
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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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