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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri May 31 12:51:37 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 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)

So you've setup your own one-off.  That's fine and something to support.
But it's irregular and uncommon.

-- 
Tom
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