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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] fatls/fatload for NAND (partition)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:35:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8F0974.5020607@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33709724.post@talk.nabble.com>

On 04/18/2012 01:22 PM, peterlu wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried/incorporated the use of the FAT tools to access NAND
> storage?  I know one can use fatls on usb and mmc (which are "boot"
> devices), but it seems natural that one should be able to use the FAT tools
> on NAND as well, perhaps through some pseudo-device (that maps to some NAND
> partition(s)).  This would allow Linux to set up some mtd partition(s) as
> vfat and U-boot to get to the same partition(s) as well.

You would need a flash translation layer in between the FAT filesystem
and raw NAND.

Any reason not to use ubifs instead?

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-18 18:22 [U-Boot] fatls/fatload for NAND (partition) peterlu
2012-04-18 18:35 ` Scott Wood [this message]

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