On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 04:14 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 01:49:06 AM, Chin Liang See wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 01:01 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 12:59:48 AM, Chin Liang See > > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 16:36 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 07:30:46 AM, Chin Liang See > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > Can you share the final layout before you roll out > > > > > > > patches ? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure, plan to do so but need to away from desk just now. > > > > > > > > > > > > Here is the old layout > > > > > > 256k(spl) > > > > > > 64k(env) > > > > > > 64k(dtb) > > > > > > 256k(boot) > > > > > > 16m(kernel) > > > > > > 16m(rootfs) > > > > > > > > > > > > The new one would like this > > > > > > 256k(spl) > > > > > > > > > > I'd say you should just call this u-boot, see above for the > > > > > rationale. > > > > > > > > > > > 256k(env) > > > > > > 15872k(boot) > > > > > > 16m(rootfs) > > > > > > > > > > > > The boot partition can be used as ubi part or raw > > > > > > partition. > > > > > > It contains the linux dtb, u-boot and linux images. > > > > > > > > > > Is that an UBIFS partition ? If so, why don't you just use > > > > > two > > > > > UBI > > > > > volumes ? > > > > > > > > For backward compatibility, it can be raw if user want to stick > > > > with > > > > old way. > > > > > > If you're breaking the partitioning layout anyway, you don't have > > > to > > > care about the "old way", right ? > > > > Actually this partition can be used as raw partition if user don't > > want > > to store zimage and dtb as raw binary. > > You should never store raw zImage/dtb in a flash on a production > system. > This is real bad and can result in a corruption in the future when > the > system is in the field for a long time. I'd suggest to just use two > UBI > volumes, one for fitImage and the other for rootfs. >
Yup, we are trying to move the raw away by having UBI enabled. I presume when you refer 2 UBI volumes, I presume its still single UBI partition? Thanks Chin Liang > > But the rootfs partition still can be presented to Linux as ubifs. > > That's for sure :) > > Best regards, > Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
