Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-16 Thread Ghorai, Sukumar
> -Original Message- > From: u-boot-boun...@lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-boun...@lists.denx.de] > On Behalf Of Wolfgang Denk > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:43 PM > To: Amit Kucheria > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; r65...@freescale.com > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] sta

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Amit Kucheria, In message you wrote: > > > It is not related to a specific storage. We could have a filesystem even > > on other storages (SPI-Flash, NAND, HD...) and "reading from file" > > should IMHO hide the underlying storage media. > > Reading from filesystems brings up the obvious q

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-10 Thread Amit Kucheria
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Stefano Babic wrote: > Reinhard Meyer wrote: [snip] >> How do you make sure the >> blocks don't overwrite files or don't get overwritten by files? > > Writing a correct partition table: the first partition must start after > u-boot code and environment, used as ra

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-09 Thread Stefano Babic
Reinhard Meyer wrote: > Dear Stefano Babic, Hi Reinhard, > Just looking at the patch I see that it writes the env to fixed blocks > on the SD/MMC card. This will work of course. BUT usually (IMHO) such > cards are used with partitions/filesystems. Not always. In the specific case reported by Ami

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-09 Thread Reinhard Meyer
Dear Stefano Babic, > Amit Kucheria wrote: >> Stefano, >> >> Any further comment on this patch? Does it still require more work >> that we can take on? > > Hi Amit, > > as I know there is a newer version of the patch [V6] as the one you > reported: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-lo

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-09 Thread Stefano Babic
Amit Kucheria wrote: > Stefano, > > Any further comment on this patch? Does it still require more work > that we can take on? Hi Amit, as I know there is a newer version of the patch [V6] as the one you reported: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/78772/match=patch+v6+save+

Re: [U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-09 Thread Amit Kucheria
Stefano, Any further comment on this patch? Does it still require more work that we can take on? Regards, Amit On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Amit Kucheria wrote: > Hi Terry, > > I came across a patch[1] from you to add support to save the > environment to mmc/sd. What is the status of the pat

[U-Boot] status of patch to store environment to mmc/sd

2010-09-07 Thread Amit Kucheria
Hi Terry, I came across a patch[1] from you to add support to save the environment to mmc/sd. What is the status of the patch? I am unable to find it in mainline u-boot or Stefano's u-boot-imx.git. I ran across this when trying mainline u-boot on a mx51evk where it won't let me change the defaul