[U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot
Hamish Moffatt
hamish at cloud.net.au
Sun Apr 20 21:05:21 EDT 2008
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:04:14PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I was thinking this:
>
> Hamish Moffatt wrote (Message-ID: <20080407073227.GA6317 at cloud.net.au>):
> > Sorry I should've said 512MiB perhaps: 512 megabytes.
> > UBI attach time appears to be about 6 seconds.
>
> If 6 seconds is as fast as it can be done, annoying but fair enough.
>
> Adding _another_ 6 seconds to the boot time seems a lot to me.
Yes. I have a prototype system here booting a minimal system from NOR
flash then booting the full system from NAND via kexec. I'm suffering
my 6 seconds of UBI attach time twice each boot.
Six seconds does seem to be abnormal though - I don't have a hardware
NAND controller so it's all software ECC, GPIO for chip selects etc. The
performance is said to be much better with a hardware controller.
> To remove the double scan:
>
> > > However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan
> > > results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.
That would certainly help my case. Fortunately my device is usually
always-on and therefore boot time is not critical, and we don't
suspend/resume.
Hamish
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