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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Vanhauwaert Wouter <W.Vanhauwaert@TELEVIC.com>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: tftp to flash from linux
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:03:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110913120301.GB25206@sapphire.tkos.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E78BBE677EB9144B8F0A0A29674CD533489C0CDCAF@SRV-VS06.TELEVIC.COM>

Hi Wouter,

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Vanhauwaert Wouter wrote:
> Yes, I already thought that this nandwrite command can be used for writing. 
> But problem is I get the image via tftp and my RAM is to little to store it 
> temporary.  So I have to write it directly to flash. Can I combine this 
> nandwrite and tftp in any way? I'm using busybox

The nandwrite utility (and also the Busybox version) reads data from standard 
input in the absence of file argument. You can pipe the data stream from the 
network directly to nandwrite.

baruch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baruch Siach [mailto:baruch@tkos.co.il] 
> Sent: dinsdag 13 september 2011 13:44
> To: Vanhauwaert Wouter
> Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: tftp to flash from linux
> 
> Hi Wouter,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:36:31PM +0200, Vanhauwaert Wouter wrote:
> > To update our platform from within a booted linux, we need tftp to 
> > write to the nand-flash (another partition) directly.
> > Which one do I use? /dev/mtdx or /dev/mtdblockx? And what happens with 
> > bad blocks here? Are these bad-block aware?
> 
> Use the nandwrite utility from the mtd-utils package (there's also a Busybox 
> version), and a/dev/mtdx.
> 
> baruch

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13 11:36 Vanhauwaert Wouter
2011-09-13 11:43 ` Baruch Siach
2011-09-13 11:50   ` Vanhauwaert Wouter
2011-09-13 11:57     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-14 15:03       ` Vanhauwaert Wouter
2011-09-14 16:43         ` Baruch Siach
2011-09-15  8:38           ` Vanhauwaert Wouter
2011-09-15  9:40             ` Vanhauwaert Wouter
2011-09-13 12:03     ` Baruch Siach [this message]

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