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Re: RFC: extending (reserved)

> liberty@embeddedx86.com wrote:
>>
>> 2) simplify board ports to Linux.
>>
>> On point 1, our platform needs guaranteed space for our BootROM and
>> jffs2
>> image...
>
> We use a utility that generates an appropriate FIS table (with arbitrary
> entries) as part of an entire flash image.
>
> You can also explicitly create (for example) a jffs2 fis entry with the
> fis create commmand.
>
> David Vrabel
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>

the problem we have with using fis create is that it isn't protected and
guaranteed to be there if we do an fis init. We really want to mark a
section of flash for the OS and leave the rest open for our end customers
to do with as they wish.
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