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

[Joakim Tjernlund]

>
> Dear Nicholas Kinar,
>
> In message <4D92428E.6030503 at usask.ca> you wrote:
> >
> > (1) Does replacing jffs2_1pass.c with jffs2_nand_1pass.c in the fs/jffs2
> > directory influence the robustness of the fsload code?
>
> JFFS2 is more or less deprecated these days.  FOr new projects, we
> recommend to use UBI/ UBIFS instead.

JFFS2 deprecated? It is very stable and works well for NOR based filesystems.
Do you use UBIFS for NOR as well these days?

>
> > (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.
>
> JFFS2 has always been slow, especially when mounting larger file
> systems.  This is one of the resons we recommend UBIFS instead.

The u-boot impl. is a bad version of the one in linux. The u-boot
version should be rewritten/fixed to match current Linux.

 Jocke