[U-Boot-Users] Suggestion on CRCing data on NAND?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <e0590900608171344p51945061i8d6cda6f14e6515c at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Here's what I need to do from u-boot. I'd like to check the validity
> of rootfs before launching Linux kernel. NFS is not available for what
> I'm doing so if the rootfs is corrupted, the kernel will just panic
> and hang there. We can't use boot disk, etc. either. So, I'd like to
> check rootfs and if it seems corrupted, u-boot will download the valid
> rootfs image (via tftp) and burn it on flash before it launches
> kernel.
> 
> I'm planning on making the rootfs read-only so that CRC checking make
> sense for this purpose. If there's anything we need to save, we will
> just save them in a flash in a separate partition.

OK, understood. Sounds OK. 

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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