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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Add support for IXP4xx CPU and for Goramo Multilink router platform.
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:03:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38vyup9mh.fsf@intrepid.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110108181019.GC11726@game.jcrosoft.org> (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD's message of "Sat, 8 Jan 2011 19:10:19 +0100")

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> writes:

> a simple link will be enough so the cramfs is the best solution, I think
> so no data duplication and it will be more easy to update and maintain
>
> And we do not have to known the size of the firmware in barebox just the fs
> location so more easy to update barebox

Agreed. For this I have to be able to set an env variable (then
read-only) from within the board code. How do I do it? Or should I write
this code myself?

> I'm working a the fs support for the env with the idea to have a ro part
> but I need more time to finish it.

Yeah, though it seems a pure cramfs is better suited to my needs anyway,
microcode isn't variable.

> for the size increasement it's impact is cover by the non data duplication
> and will be reduce againt with the envfs

Not a factor for me.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 14:48 New round of my IXP42x patches Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-06 15:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] Fix error handling with malloc, memalign etc. Introduce xmemalign() Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-06 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: support big/little endian switching in "bootX" Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-06 15:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Add support for IXP4xx CPU and for Goramo Multilink router platform Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-06 23:36   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-01-08 12:16     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-08 13:55       ` Sascha Hauer
2011-01-08 17:35         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2011-01-08 18:10           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-01-09 12:03             ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2011-01-08 13:33     ` Krzysztof Halasa

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