Nowadays, do many (PowerPC) embedded devices already risk omitting NOR flash and use a NAND device solely for booting and storing images ?
I'm talking about systems with 10 years life-cycle (so no MP3-players nor medical systems but somewhere in between). We have a MPC8313E-RDB and I know booting from NAND is possible. U-boot seems to support it well, I assume it can read the kernel, ramdisk and dtb from NAND in memory and bootm this. However, having no NOR flash means: - NAND should be programmable via JTAG (BDI3000 doesn't support this, Lauterbach/trace32 does) - Critical software images (u-boot, kernel, dtb) stored on NAND, while there's no NAND 'scrubbing', etc.. Thoughts/comments are welcome. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
