Andy Green wrote: > "dynparts" rides again :-( I wonder if we steadily regenerate > everything we wanted to discard.
Naw, for booting that would just be a block of data at a well-known location in memory. The boot loader has to skip bad blocks anyway, so it can do this for the parameter block as well. > Thing that bothers me about initramfs is you have to sit there while you > pull the whole thing before the kernel boots. Aah, now I understand ! Yes, that's true. However, it should be fairly small, maybe a couple of MB. So I'm not sure you'd really notice much of a difference. We'll have to try it. If it's too slow, we can always optimize later. > But it is pretty ugly if we expose the block devices in linux bad blocks > and all, with no OOB in there to even figure out if they are bad, that > doesn't sound right. Bad blocks are still marked in their OOB areas. The only thing that would be missing is the bad block table, i.e., the ability to tell whether a block is bad without actually accessing it. The way the MTD code looks, this is supposed to work just fine. - Werner
