Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-22 Thread Jamie Lokier
Josh Boyer wrote: > > I was under the impression from past emails on the MTD list that the > > internal meta format for UBI has changed a few times over its lifetime. > > > > Assuming this continues, I would think this would cause problems for > > bootloaders such as U-Boot whose flash partition

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-22 Thread Ricard Wanderlof
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 08:44 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> I think there was only 1 time the on-flash format changed, and that was >> before UBI was merged upstream. New features can be introduced with >> additional flags, however older versions should

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:36 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 00:22 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >>> > >>> Wolfgang showed some interest briefly too.[1] > >> > >> I am definitely

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-21 Thread Ricard Wanderlof
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 00:22 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>> >>> Wolfgang showed some interest briefly too.[1] >> >> I am definitely interested. > > What I would suggest to start with is to teach U-boot to

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:04:14PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I was thinking this: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote (Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > Sorry I should've said 512MiB perhaps: 512 megabytes. > > UBI attach time appears to be about 6 seconds. > > If 6 seconds is as fast as it can be do

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Wolfgang showed some interest briefly too.[1] I am definitely interested. > > The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not > > fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice > > as much time to boot. We have the same (at at lea

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-20 Thread Jamie Lokier
Josh Boyer wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote (Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > > Sorry I should've said 512MiB perhaps: 512 megabytes. > > > UBI attach time appears to be about 6 seconds. > > > > If 6 seconds is as fast as it can be done, annoying but fair enough. > > You should read that thre

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:04 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Is it even a good idea? The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not > > > fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice > > > as much time to boot. > > > > It's a good idea, yes. Particularly

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-20 Thread Jamie Lokier
Josh Boyer wrote: > > Is it even a good idea? The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not > > fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice > > as much time to boot. > > It's a good idea, yes. Particularly if you want to boot from NAND > flash. > > Can you define "large d

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-18 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:59 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote: > > > [apologies for the cross post] > > > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot? > > > > I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-18 Thread Bernard Blackham
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: >>> Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot? >> I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream >> U-Boot at this exact moment. > > Is it even a good idea? From what I've seen, UBI is the first solution with the potential for

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-18 Thread Jamie Lokier
Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote: > > [apologies for the cross post] > > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot? > > I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream > U-Boot at this exact moment. Is it even a good idea?

Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-18 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote: > [apologies for the cross post] > > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot? I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream U-Boot at this exact moment. josh -

[U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot

2008-04-18 Thread Bernard Blackham
[apologies for the cross post] Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot? Kind regards, Bernard. - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's stil