From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stefano babic Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:08:39 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] booting kernel image from jffs2 partition In-Reply-To: <00be01c7efc5$a363f020$0802a8c0@racchia> References: <00be01c7efc5$a363f020$0802a8c0@racchia> Message-ID: <46DED487.40607@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 Fabio Ubaldi wrote: > We'd like to format linux kernel and rootfs image partitions (and the > others) with jffs2, because the two images may be replaced with newer > ones while Linux is running. It is not a problem to replace the linux image while it is running, because Linux runs from RAM. You can always replace the Linux image. > A first question is: > Is it possible to boot (bootm command) the images stored in partitions > formatted using jffs2? U-boot can read JFFS2 partitions, but as I said, this should not be necessary if your goal is only to replace the kernel images. And u-boot does not need to understand the rootfs, too. Regards, stefano babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office at denx.de =====================================================================