On 5/31/19 3:08 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 5/31/19 2:51 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>> On 5/31/19 2:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>>>> On 5/31/19 2:18 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So I will have to track a downstream patch for wandboard now ? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I didn't mention we want to remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 from Wandboard. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ah OK, good, thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>>> I do want to remove it from mx6sabresd for sure. >>>>>> >>>>>> How does the sabresd boot ? >>>>> >>>>> How does your wandboard/novena boot? I'd have sworn most distros do >>>>> VFAT /boot not ext4 /boot. Of course I'm still surprised anyone is >>>>> loading u-boot from fs on iMX since I always see that as raw offsets. >>>> >>>> Novena is ext4 for sure, for two reasons -- VFAT has patent problems and >>>> putting it at raw offset is just an accident waiting to happen (silent >>>> FT corruption if the image gets too large) >>> >>> So you've setup your own one-off. That's fine and something to support. >>> But it's irregular and uncommon. >> >> I would say this is the recommended approach over just writing U-Boot >> binary to random offset on the card at hoping that your data will be >> safe the next time you update it ? > > No, it's generally not.
That's not the point, the point is that writing data to random offset is likely to end up with silent FS corruption eventually. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
