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 storing a pointer to the
>> sector in the OOB of the first sector (interferes with some CRC) or
>> supporting a range of sectors (which unless it is huge is not
>> guaranteed to be safe).  None of these options address wear-leveling
>> concerns or bad block handling.
>>
>> Accessing the u-boot env from UBI eliminates these concerns.  However,
>> it does require some of the basic settings for finding the UBI env to
>> be in the default u-boot env.

One question: Do you plan to support the fw_env Linux tools with this
env-in-UBI feature as well?

Thanks,
Stefan

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