Hi Mike, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Friday 17 August 2012 16:49:38 Joe Hershberger wrote: >> + * Break reads up into very small chunks so fw_printenv doesn't >> + * block the kernel long enough to starve other kernel tasks. > > err, this sounds like a bug in your kernel driver. why should userspace be > working around buggy drivers ?
The problem is something to do with the mtd driver blocking some resource on large reads that starves USB transfers. We never fully investigated it. It's true that this is a work-around. Is that so bad? Maybe so. -Joe _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
