Hi Ilya, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Ilya Yanok <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Graeme, > > On 14.12.2011 03:37, Graeme Russ wrote: >>> Well, it shouldn't be that hard to get the data written to specific >>> blocks on the dev PC using dd command. >> >> But what about bad blocks? > > You don't need to worry much about this. MMC/SD card are not a raw flash > devices they contain FTL that handles this internally. See > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_raw_vs_ftl > for details. > > That's why you can use generic filesystems on MMC/SD (neither FAT not > EXT2/3/4 is not designed for raw flash).
Thanks, that is good to know - I'll try this out when I get a chance Nonetheless, I think it will be advantageous to have filesystem write support in U-Boot anyway to allow seamless transfer of data between development mchines, U-Boot and the target OS. Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
