[U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot
Jamie Lokier
jamie at shareable.org
Fri Apr 18 12:59:57 EDT 2008
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.
However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan
results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.
-- Jamie
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