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

[Ghorai, Sukumar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
> On Behalf Of Wolfgang Denk
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: Amit Kucheria
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; R65388 at freescale.com
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd
> 
> 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.

[Ghorai] This patch is very important for the platform where we don't have any other storage device; e.g. omap4 development platforms does not have any NAND/NOR to save the env. And need to use this patch. 

> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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