On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 14:30, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Andy wrote: >> Another big problem with U-Boot was the inability to update the >> bootloader from the Linux world. Instead the bootloader was treated >> special and had to be updated over USB with DFU (the exclusivity of it >> enforced by an ECC policy disconnected from Linux, meaning U-Boot had to >> write it in there). In Qi, the bootloader can be updated by a packaged >> update like anything else in the rootfs. > > Can you explain to me why it was not possible to update U-Boot from > Linux? I cannot imagine a reason for such a restriction. we do it all the time under the Blackfin port on nor/nand/spi flashes. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
