[U-Boot] dfu: dfu and UBI Volumes

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Hi Heiko,

On May 24, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Heiko Schocher wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> just digging in DFU support in U-Boot for an upcoming board support
> based on an AM335x. This board support uses for example a rootfs in
> an UBI Volume on a NAND flash, and this should be updated with dfu ...
> 
> How To do this? Current state on this board is to erase the rootfs
> mtd partition with a nand erase and write the new image using
> dfu_nand.c ... which calls in the end nand_write ... which is ...
> lets say ... not the prefered way on an UBI volume ...
> 
> How to solve this? Any ideas?
> 

Well, what would you like ideally to do? Why is nand_write not ideal for
a UBI volume.

Note that dfu will skip over the bad blocks... 


> bye,
> Heiko
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Regards

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