[U-Boot] fatls/fatload for NAND (partition)

[Scott Wood]

On 04/18/2012 01:22 PM, peterlu wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried/incorporated the use of the FAT tools to access NAND
> storage?  I know one can use fatls on usb and mmc (which are "boot"
> devices), but it seems natural that one should be able to use the FAT tools
> on NAND as well, perhaps through some pseudo-device (that maps to some NAND
> partition(s)).  This would allow Linux to set up some mtd partition(s) as
> vfat and U-boot to get to the same partition(s) as well.

You would need a flash translation layer in between the FAT filesystem
and raw NAND.

Any reason not to use ubifs instead?

-Scott