Oliver, it is our intent that /boot always be an ext2 partition.
We are phasing out support for booting from vfat partitions as
"recommended practise" in so far as it's only in U-Boot to keep old
systems working before migrating partitions to ext2. Once we release
U-Boot 2.0.6 for both boards, everyone can use ext2 as a /boot partition
and everything will be nice and safe.
The only sticking point right now is that it is impossible to
automagically patch U-Boot from older Smarttop systems (Smartbook is
fine though) without going into Linux first, and we have an SPI bug
somewhere which is causing MTD operation to fail miserably. We are
working on a solution.
flash-kernel should NOT be hacked to support VFAT boot partitions in the
meantime.
** Also affects: flash-kernel
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: efikamx
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Add Efika MX Smartbook/Smarttop support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/671027
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