On Monday 05 October 2009, Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
I guess that happened after I prepared the patch but before I sent it in. I'll look; there were some differences still. Notably to store the environment in the otherwise-unused block zero,
That is because most users who have used existing TI binaries have the env stored at 0x3c0000. So if the update the U-Boot binary, they will still get all their env back. IIRC this was a customer requirement of ours.
I don't follow. Those existing binaries also used the deprecated "infix" OOB scheme, right? The one which trashes the manufacturer bad block markers, and is not compatible with what U-Boot and Linux have agreed to use.
Which means that block becomes unreadable anyway. There's no point in trying to preserve it...
- Dave