Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-12 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Joe, On 12.04.2013 00:26, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote: NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing particular data. The current implementation of the NAND env support works around this in several ways such as

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Rini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2013 02:19 AM, Stefan Roese wrote: Hi Joe, On 12.04.2013 00:26, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote: NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing particular data.

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-12 Thread Joe Hershberger
Hi Stefan, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Tom Rini tr...@ti.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2013 02:19 AM, Stefan Roese wrote: Hi Joe, On 12.04.2013 00:26, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote: NAND is not

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-12 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Joe, On 12.04.2013 14:52, Joe Hershberger wrote: Sorry that wasn't clearer. In the last two patches you can see where I have to add a few changes to the fw_setenv to make it function properly on the GLUEBI mtd devices. I guess I didn't add much to the READMEs about it. I'll try to

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-11 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote: NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing particular data. The current implementation of the NAND env support works around this in several ways such as storing a pointer to the sector in the OOB of

[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

2013-04-08 Thread Joe Hershberger
NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing particular data. The current implementation of the NAND env support works around this in several ways such as storing a pointer to the sector in the OOB of the first sector (interferes with some CRC) or supporting a range of