From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:38:56 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] uboot to read kernel and rootfs from a bootfs. In-Reply-To: References: <20181121083529.C6C65240403@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20181121153856.171CD240403@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Michael, In message 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod.