On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > On 5/31/19 2:51 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >> On 5/31/19 2:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >>>> On 5/31/19 2:18 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> So I will have to track a downstream patch for wandboard now ? > >>>>> > >>>>> I didn't mention we want to remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 from Wandboard. > >>>> > >>>> Ah OK, good, thanks. > >>>> > >>>>> I do want to remove it from mx6sabresd for sure. > >>>> > >>>> How does the sabresd boot ? > >>> > >>> How does your wandboard/novena boot? I'd have sworn most distros do > >>> VFAT /boot not ext4 /boot. Of course I'm still surprised anyone is > >>> loading u-boot from fs on iMX since I always see that as raw offsets. > >> > >> Novena is ext4 for sure, for two reasons -- VFAT has patent problems and > >> putting it at raw offset is just an accident waiting to happen (silent > >> FT corruption if the image gets too large) > > > > So you've setup your own one-off. That's fine and something to support. > > But it's irregular and uncommon. > > I would say this is the recommended approach over just writing U-Boot > binary to random offset on the card at hoping that your data will be > safe the next time you update it ?
No, it's generally not. -- Tom
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