Mitch Bradley wrote:

> I would really like to reduce the time of this "2s to 10s" phase.  The 
> main component is JFFS2 scan time, which could be reduced to near 0 by 
> partitioning the NAND FLASH.
> 
> That speedup won't happen right away, but we shouldn't assume that this 
> 8-second visual opportunity will exist for the long term.

A big waste of time is that both OFW and the kernel need to
scan JFFS2 for the same superblock.

It would be nice if OFW could pass "jffs2super=0x1234" on the kernel
command line as a hint for jffs2 to look at that block first.

David, would such a thing be possible?  Easy, maybe?

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