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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:20:03 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] arm: socfpga: Enable load zImage and Linux
	DTB from QSPI
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On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 02:34:27 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 02:27 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 02:24:49 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > > Hi Pavel,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 15:43 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > > Adding new environment qspiload which will load zImage and
> > > > > Linux DTB from serial NOR flash. The default flash offset for
> > > > > the images as below and they are configurable during run time.
> > > > > 
> > > > > - zImage located at    0xa0000 with assuming file size 6MB
> > > > > - Linux DTB located at 0x50000 with assuming file size 28kB
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm. Ok, zImage second, so that it can grow. Makes sense. Not
> > > > sure if
> > > > 28kB is not a bit small for DTB. I'd reserve at least 64kB.
> > > 
> > > Yup, it can grow up to 64kB as the size for a sector. We used 28KB
> > > mainly for boot time performance.
> > 
> > So why don't you use UBI on the QSPI NOR ? That way, you'd secure the
> > binaries against bitrot as well.
> 
> Good point. Its a nice enhancement as we were using raw access for the
> images in NAND and QSPI. Will add a new command for fs support once we
> enable the ubifs support in socfpga

Why can't this be enabled now then ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut