[U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Amit Kucheria,

In message <AANLkTi=peKHk5qWxM_JA5bm1A9=2QSkfQvy-h2Nw2sG=@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > It is not related to a specific storage. We could have a filesystem even
> > on other storages (SPI-Flash, NAND, HD...) and "reading from file"
> > should IMHO hide the underlying storage media.
> 
> Reading from filesystems brings up the obvious question - which
> filesystems should we support?

Well, reading from file system in only one part of the issue - you
also need write support or you cannot implement "saveenv".  And at the
moment YAFFS is the only file system with write support, IIRC.

> And it is definitely a separate patch. The feature that this patch is
> enabling can exist independent of filesystem support.

Indeed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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