Writing UBI image directly to flash from barebox

[Jan Remmet]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:26:31PM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 15 June 2016 14:57:45 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > I need to write an UBI image (generated by ubinize) directly to flash
> > from barebox. Does barebox provide any equivalent to U-boot's
> > write.trimffs command for this?
> 
> ubiformat /dev/<your-partition> -y -f /mnt/tftp/<your-ubi-image>
This may fail if the used tftp sever don't support the reporting of the file
size. The file size then defaults to -1 and ubiformat complains.

ls -l /mnt/tftp/barebox.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 18446744073709551615 /mnt/tftp/barebox.bin

Jan
> 
> Cheers
> Jürgen
> 
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