[U-Boot] Flashing images bigger than ram

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Sep 16 00:24:01 CEST 2009


Ben Goska wrote:
> Is there a standard way to have U-Boot flash really large images? I
> want to setup rootfs flashing from U-Boot but this requires flashing
> an image that is bigger than the ram of my system. I thought about
> breaking the image into chunks, but when flashing to NAND with bad
> blocks it is difficult to handle skipping the bad blocks.

Have you looked into ubi?  I'm not too familiar with it, but my 
understanding is that it has a better way of dealing with bad blocks.

-Scott


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