[U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes

[Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>]

Hello Tom,

Am 27.05.2013 21:21, schrieb Tom Rini:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 09:09:22AM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> Ah, looking in drivers/dfu/dfu_mmc.c, they use dfu->layout
>> for switching between DFU_RAW_ADDR, DFU_FS_FAT, DFU_FS_EXT4...
>>
>> After all ... should we add a DFU_UBI and add this to
>> drivers/dfu/dfu_nand.c?
> 
> Yes, I think we should be able to adapt dfu_nand to support raw
> (current) and UBI (which will need a little further handling so you can
> update per UBI container).  In MMC (and there's examples in trats and
> am335x_evm) we say <name> ext4/fat/part/raw device#/start_blk part#/end_blk.
> I would imagine, but testing and implementation might show a better way,
> we do UBI as <name> ubi ubiN volume-name, ie:
> rootfs ubi ubi0 rootfs
> user ubi ubi0 user-data
> and so forth, and augment dfu_nand.c with UBI knowledge, ala dfu_mmc and
> fat/ext knowledge.

Yes, I think, thats the way to go ...

bye,
Heiko
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