[U-Boot] split nand writes

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Dec 21 00:18:14 CET 2012


On 12/20/2012 06:35:49 AM, Jaap de Jong wrote:
> 
> On 12/19/2012 11:47 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On 12/19/2012 09:43:01 AM, Jaap de Jong wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> suppose the image I want to flash is bigger than the available ram  
>>> in
>>> the unit.
>>> Is there a way to copy the image f.i. in pieces into the flash?
>>> nand write should have a 'continue on last block' option for that
>>> purpose.
>> Something like that would be nice.
>> 
>> These patches are relevant:
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/204939/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/204940/
>> 
> That could do the trick also. You would have to do some arithmetic to  
> calculate the next startaddress in the flash.
> So there is not an out-of-the-box solution at the moment?

There isn't.

-Scott


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