[U-Boot] Booting kernel from NAND flash on AT91SAM9 custom board using fsload

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Mar 29 22:46:38 CEST 2011


On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:35:26 -0600
Nicholas Kinar <n.kinar at usask.ca> wrote:

> I have two additional questions associated with booting the kernel from 
> NAND flash on my custom hardware:
> 
> (1) Does replacing jffs2_1pass.c with jffs2_nand_1pass.c in the fs/jffs2 
> directory influence the robustness of the fsload code?
> 
> (2) Does it take a long time to load the Linux kernel from a JFFS2 
> filesystem on NAND flash using the fsload command (i.e. 
> http://old.nabble.com/Performance-in-Booting-Linux-w--Device-Tree-via-U-Boot-out-of-JFFS2-on-NAND-td15879327.html), 
> or has this been cleaned up in the current u-boot-2010.09 code?

I haven't used U-Boot's jffs2 support (the previous answer was from reading
the source code), so I can't help here, sorry.

-Scott



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