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From: Boaz Ben-David <boaz.bd@wellsense-tech.com>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: bareboxenv usage
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:07:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6F4774.5010800@wellsense-tech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6F4604.7040501@pengutronix.de>

On 09/13/11 15:01, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 11:48 AM, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
>> On 09/13/11 12:14, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> On 09/13/2011 10:59 AM, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
>>>> All I am asking is: do I need to use /dev/mtdblock or /dev/mtd when
>>>> loading and saving envs
>>> neither nor - loadenv&   saveenv are not bad block aware. In barebox you
>>> use the .bb devices, which are bad block are, under linux use nandwrite
>>> + nanddump to write or read data from the nand into a file. Then use
>>> loadenv/saveenv.
>>>
>>> cheers, Marc
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> First question, please tell me if these sequences are correct:
> basically yes....but
>
>> In Linux:
>>
>> - Read:
>>
>> 1.nanddump from the mtd device to a file.
> read the nanddump help text, you need to skip bad blocks
>
>> 2.bareboxenv -l the file dumped.
>>
>> -Write:
>>
>> 1.bareboxenv -s from source directory to a file
>>
>> 2.nandwrite that file to the mtd device.
> use padding
>
> cheers, Marc
>

Hi,


This was psuedo command line (:

Of course I will use padding and skip bb...


Thanks,


Boaz.


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12 13:54 Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13  8:59 ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13  9:14   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-13  9:48     ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 11:25       ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 12:00         ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-13 12:01       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-13 12:07         ` Boaz Ben-David [this message]

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