On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:55:24 +0100 "Norbert van Bolhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nowadays, do many (PowerPC) embedded devices already risk omitting > NOR flash and use a NAND device solely for booting and storing > images ? > > I'm talking about systems with 10 years life-cycle (so no > MP3-players nor medical systems but somewhere in between). > > We have a MPC8313E-RDB and I know booting from NAND is > possible. U-boot seems to support it well, I assume it can read > the kernel, ramdisk and dtb from NAND in memory and bootm this. We use a 256M NAND on the PIKA Warp appliance and where unable to boot u-boot from the NAND. It worked on a smaller 64M NAND. So we put our FPGA and u-boot in a small NOR. The kernel, rootfs and other files are on the NAND. Cheers, Sean _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
