On 5/31/19 3:31 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:22:05PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 5/31/19 3:08 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> 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. >> >> That's not the point, the point is that writing data to random offset is >> likely to end up with silent FS corruption eventually. > > No, it's generally not.
You do agree that putting as much as possible into a filesystem is better and safer than putting it at random offset in raw block device , yes ? -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot