[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add MTD core & partition

Michael Lawnick nospam_lawnick at gmx.de
Fri Sep 19 15:24:54 CEST 2008


Stefan Roese <sr <at> denx.de> writes:

> 
> On Friday 19 September 2008, Michael Lawnick wrote:
> > how far have you got?
> > We are planning to integrate UBI in u-boot too (NOR flashes), so if all is
> > already done - or will be in next time - we could spare some hours ...
> 
> We also have a project to integrate UBI support into U-Boot. The real UBI work 
> will start in 2-3 weeks. We really should coordinate our work on this.
> 
> BTW: Which NOR FLASH driver are you using? The common CFI driver? It has no 
> real connection to the MTD layer which is needed for the UBI port from 
> Kyungmin. Did you think about this?
> 
We are using CFI driver for AM29GL512.
As said we are _planning_ to integrate, i.e. I'm currently gathering
information. We need r/o access from u-boot to find our kernel and boot it.
Writing to flash could be done from Linux.
What are the problems to face?

Kind Regards,
Michael



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