Fallback environment in barebox

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Apr 8 03:03:48 EDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A general question regarding environment but not limited to.
> If we have an environment partition on a NAND device which has 4 blocks
> of 512K, and a block becomes bad when writing to it, does barebox handle
> it and writes to the next block?

No barebox currently does not do this. You would have to do this
manually on the command line (which of course is not very convenient in
production).

Sascha


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