[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote:

> NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing
> particular data.  The current implementation of the NAND env support
> works around this in several ways such as storing a pointer to the
> sector in the OOB of the first sector (interferes with some CRC) or
> supporting a range of sectors (which unless it is huge is not
> guaranteed to be safe).  None of these options address wear-leveling
> concerns or bad block handling.
> 
> Accessing the u-boot env from UBI eliminates these concerns.  However,
> it does require some of the basic settings for finding the UBI env to
> be in the default u-boot env.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Added documentation for UBI and UBIFS to README
> - Changed the silence to opt-in and added the options to README
> - Added comment to README about using _SILENCE_MSG options
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixed error handling bug that prevents fail-over to default env on error
> - Added curly braces on "multi-line" statements
> - Added extern consistently in header
> - Cleaned up the msg print silencing
> - Added curly braces on "multi-line" statements
> 
> Joe Hershberger (7):
>   ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning
>   ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi
>   ubi: ubifs: Add documentation for README
>   ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints
>   mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env
>   env: Add support for UBI environment
>   env: Add redundant env support to UBI env

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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