[U-Boot] [PATCH] configs: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 for all MX6 platforms

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri May 31 12:46:45 UTC 2019


On 5/31/19 2:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 5/31/19 2:18 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I will have to track a downstream patch for wandboard now ?
>>>
>>> I didn't mention we want to remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 from Wandboard.
>>
>> Ah OK, good, thanks.
>>
>>> I do want to remove it from mx6sabresd for sure.
>>
>> How does the sabresd boot ?
> 
> How does your wandboard/novena boot?  I'd have sworn most distros do
> VFAT /boot not ext4 /boot.  Of course I'm still surprised anyone is
> loading u-boot from fs on iMX since I always see that as raw offsets.

Novena is ext4 for sure, for two reasons -- VFAT has patent problems and
putting it at raw offset is just an accident waiting to happen (silent
FT corruption if the image gets too large)

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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