In message 4808DF3B.2080702@largestprime.net you wrote:
Wolfgang showed some interest briefly too.[1]
I am definitely interested.
The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice as much time to boot.
We have the same (at at least similar) problems when using JFFS2 file systems in U-Boot. Yet, being able to do this is quite useful in many situations.
However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.
That would be of course a good thing to have :-)
If there's no compelling reasons not to, I'll try and find some time to work on ubi in uboot. I'm not expecting it to be easy though :)
Thanks in advance, and good luck!
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk