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

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:22:05PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 5/31/19 3:08 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> On 5/31/19 2:51 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> I would say this is the recommended approach over just writing U-Boot
> >> binary to random offset on the card at hoping that your data will be
> >> safe the next time you update it ?
> > 
> > No, it's generally not.
> 
> That's not the point, the point is that writing data to random offset is
> likely to end up with silent FS corruption eventually.

No, it's generally not.

-- 
Tom
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