The main reason you have gotten no feedback is because we are ultra-busy right now with mass-production and other issues.
I have been looking into partitioning schemes for some time now. We need to have a discussion about this, but now is not the time. Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hello Mitch, > > we've sent an UBIFS announcement few days ago to this mailing list: > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/008348.html > > but unfortunately have not got feedback, and I suspect one of the > reasons is that it is too difficult to boot UBIFS on XO. > > I'd kindly ask you to help me with booting XO with UBIFS as rootfs. > > UBI/UBIFS is too large and difficult to implement their support in XO > boot-loader. So I plan to use the following scheme: > > 1. Have 2 MTD partitions - mtd0 and mtd1. mtd0 is small (say, 10MiB), > and has JFFS2 FS. It contains /boot, /boot-alt, and everything else > which the boot-loader would like to have. mtd1 is large, and it spans > up to the end of the flash chip. > > 2. When booting, the bootloader reads kernel, initrd and the other > stuff from the JFFS2 FS on MTD 0. It has to be trivial as the > boot-loader already can read JFFS2 FS. > > The boot-loader does not try to read mtd1, because it contains > UBI/UBIFS which it does not support. > > 3. Once the kernel and initrd are loaded, mtd1 can be attached to UBI > and rootfs (UBIFS) can be bounted. > > Also, I need to be able to easily flash images which contain JFFS2 and > UBIFS to the internal NAND. But I guess this has nothing to do with > the bootloader, right? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel