[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at ni.com
Fri Feb 8 21:07:21 CET 2013


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.


Joe Hershberger (5):
  ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi
  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

 README                |  21 +++++
 common/Makefile       |   1 +
 common/cmd_mtdparts.c |  23 +++++-
 common/cmd_nvedit.c   |   7 +-
 common/cmd_ubi.c      | 149 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
 common/env_ubi.c      | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c |  14 ++--
 drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h |   3 +-
 fs/ubifs/ubifs.h      |   2 +-
 include/environment.h |  18 +++++
 include/ubi_uboot.h   |   3 +
 tools/env/fw_env.c    |   6 +-
 12 files changed, 387 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 common/env_ubi.c

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1.7.11.5



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