[U-Boot] is it possilbe to have uboot find the kernel in the file system?

[John Stile]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 22:07 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear John Stile,
> 
> In message <1357246601.7939.128.camel at genx> you wrote:
> > Is it possible to add my kernel to the rootfs partition rather than have
> > a separate partition? 
> 
> Yes, it is - assuming you use a storage device and a file system type
> supported by U-Boot.
> 
> > I am using U-Boot 1.3.4, on a at91sam9g20ek (256Mb Nand, 8Mb Nor), and
> > use the sam-ba firmware upload tool. 
> 
> Oops... v1.3.4 is way over 4 years old.  Please consider it hopelessly
> obsoleted and completely unsupported.
> 
> > I'd like to put everything on nand, ignore nor, and hold redundant
> > areas, in perpetration for firmware updates.
> 
> For NAND flash, you should use UBI  UBIFS (and yes, U-Boot can load
> from a UBIFS file system).  The first step to this goal is an update
> to recent code, though.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
u-boot-2012.10.tar.bz2  does not have support for the at91sam9g20ek
I treid to apply my patches for u-boot-1.3.4, but they are way too old.
Is there a newer patch set?