[U-Boot] uboot to read kernel and rootfs from a bootfs.

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Michael,

In message <CAGVhguGjKWY+qaHmfCRSZfSRSsGG8Gep2BV6-gKx6zDCoU0obg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> as I asked in my email... since I'm using spi-flash for the fs access, it
> seems I'll need to use the DM_SPI_FLASH support.

For new code, yes.

> I'm using the 2017.09 version of u-boot with openembedded/poky and the 4.4
> kernel
>
> would it be worth me using a newer version of u-boot? would that give me
> better support of my spi-flash?

You should always go with top-of-tree from the respective mainline
repositoruy for any new developments.

> my board is basically an am335x_evm with an is25lp512 nor spi-flash instead
> of emmc.

SPI NOR is used on a zillion of boards and should work pretty well.

> when I tried to turn on the dm flash support it didn't compile. just
> wondering if that is supported more thouroughly in
> newer versions of u-boot.....

sorry, I don't know.  Again, here the ML is a much better reource to
ask such things.

In any case you should not use JFFS2 any more; it is really, really
dead code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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