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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] omap: use 512k barebox partition
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:54:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207271854.16758.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120727151936.GF30009@pengutronix.de>

Hi Sascha,

Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:09:07PM +0200, Jan Weitzel wrote:
> > Use 512k NAND Partion for barebox. Problem is we don't know the size of
> > the barebox inside xload. Set it also to 512k
> > Fix enviroment for boards with size in config
>
> The barebox binary has the size encoded into it at offset 0x2c. We could
> use this to transfer the correct size.

Will this be a reliable "API" to the outerworld? Also in future versions of 
Barebox?

I would need this information in my S3C6410 implementation (for NAND and SD 
cards to boot from) so it would be a really helpful feature. But only if it 
is still present in future versions.

jbe

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Pengutronix e.K.                              | Juergen Beisert             |
Linux Solutions for Science and Industry      | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-27 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27 11:09 Jan Weitzel
2012-07-27 15:19 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-27 16:54   ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
2012-07-30  7:40     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-30  8:11       ` Juergen Beisert
2012-07-30  8:52         ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-30  9:16           ` Juergen Beisert
2012-07-30  9:33             ` Sascha Hauer

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