Re: [U-Boot] uboot to read kernel and rootfs from a bootfs.

2018-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Michael, In message you wrote: > > as I asked in my email... since I'm using spi-flash for the fs access, it > seems I'll need to use the DM_SPI_FLASH support. For new code, yes. > I'm using the 2017.09 version of u-boot with openembedded/poky and the 4.4 > kernel > > would it be worth me

Re: [U-Boot] uboot to read kernel and rootfs from a bootfs.

2018-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Michael, In message you wrote: > > we were thinking that jffs2 would be best for the bootfs since we gain the > wear leveling. There are really only a few files in the bootfs and not much > r/w activity except on upgrades of images and boot, so I don't think we'll > have a problem mount tim

[U-Boot] uboot to read kernel and rootfs from a bootfs.

2018-11-20 Thread C Michael Sundius
we are supporting several platforms and have a well established format and set of tools for upgrading our images and rolling back to prior images upon upgrade failure. that said we'd like to use the same layout for our boot file system and not mtd partitions for kernel, rootfs etc. to boot we rea