From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Segmented RAM, big userspace.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:00:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE7AED2.3090508@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111213160810.GA27440@build.ihdev.net>
On 12/13/2011 10:08 AM, Sergey Lapin wrote:
> It is possible to flash filesystems in parts, but for this to work
> these are needed to be properly split. This raises a problem of
> bad blocks - writing previous piece might end not where you expect it to
> end, but a few blocks later. Hand-handling this case is too error-prone.
Use a separate partition for each chunk. Each partition should have
extra space for as many bad blocks as you reasonably anticipate in that
partition. The start address of each partition is fixed, regardless of
the number of bad blocks in previous partitions.
-Scott
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-13 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 16:08 [U-Boot] Segmented RAM, big userspace Sergey Lapin
2011-12-13 16:24 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-13 16:51 ` Sergey Lapin
2011-12-13 18:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-13 20:00 ` Scott Wood [this message]
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