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 upstream > > U-Boot at this exact moment. > > 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 device"? It only scans the first 1 or 2 pages for each eraseblock to build up the volume tables. That really isn't that slow... > However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan > results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice. Maybe. I was never fully convinced of that. josh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
