Dear Tom, In message <20130527233735.GZ17119@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > > Where exactly is this 8 MB limit coming into play? > > In buffering the data. We cannot write a chunk of a file to a > filesystem and then append to it, we don't have the API today.
Sorry, I still don't get it. Assuming I have a GiB of RAM, why can I not load a 256 MiB file to RAM, and then write it to a file system? I have definitely dealt with images and files bigger than 8 MiB in thepast, so I really don't see where any buffer problem could be. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de No question is too silly to ask. Of course, some questions are too silly to to answer... - L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz, _Programming Perl_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot