From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Read kernel from static UBI volume
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:39:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161027073948.26b4slsy6na5bi2i@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABDcava4zzJBLtku87=bmp5PdYy0TMejDgTpsoP8Z2zB5vQV-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> 2016-10-27 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:10:02AM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I know Barebox can load files from UBIFS. However, is there support
> >> from booting a kernel directly from a static UBI volume?.
> >
> > bootm /dev/nand0.ubi.whatever should do.
>
> That easy?
>
> This is one of the reasons why I like barebox so much better than u-boot..
>
> I assume this will just read the whole volume (as opposed to checking
> the zImage size and so on). Correct?
The bootm code only reads the actual image size.
>
> Also will this do the UBI static volume CRC check?
You read a UBI volume using the UBI code which is more or less identical
to the Kernel, so I'd assume the code does whatever is necessary,
including the crc check.
I'm speaking a bit nebulous because I never used static UBI volumes
myself.
Sascha
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-27 7:10 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2016-10-27 7:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-10-27 7:29 ` Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2016-10-27 7:31 ` Sascha Hauer
2016-10-27 7:34 ` Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
2016-10-27 7:39 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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