[U-Boot] Booting kernel from jffs2

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Apr 7 14:26:30 CEST 2009


Dear Rams Subramanian,

In message <4e031cb50904070515u797beb03o23ad89c15362c25a at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I have an requirement to have three partitions in the Flash
> 1. U Boot
> 2. JFFS2(GoldenImage) (Mininum Kernel Image )
> 3. JFFS2(Application Image) (Kernel + Application)
> The idea of Golden image is to use this partition to boot in case the
> application image fails after software upgrade due to corruption of the
> filesystem in this partition if any during upgrade.  When the system is up
> with Golden image, partition 3 can be updated.
> Is this method feasible.  Kindly let me know if you have better ideas or
> suggestions?

Yes, this is possible (actually, it's trivial).

Without knowing your exact requirements and restrictions it's
difficult to recommend better ideas...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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