considering the switch to 2.6.24

[Andy Green]

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Andy Green wrote:
>> Yeah -- I replied to this but it seems you didn't get it?  I mail it
>> directly to you.
> 
> I got it, it was just a bit further down in my mails :)
> 
>> but 0 means you can't update the NOR contents
>> from Linux without PITA.
> 
> Oh, I didn't mean to ignore it, sorry. What I'm suggesting is to have
> a single NOR partition, and figure out how exactly to use it later.
> (With just u-boot dropped into it for now.)

One will be fine -- you can always meddle with dd seek and emulate
having more if you're not directly mounting what's in there.  You can
meddle with the U-Boot env var to offset any mountable part and limit
the length of it too, so you can actually make 3 parts from that one if
we had to, the mountable bit in the middle.

>> I dunno if you noticed but there is a 20s boot time target being talked
>> about now.  Something radical will have to be done to get near that and
>> this is it, I think.
> 
> Hmm, let me do a bit of research into making our root file system
> a bit quicker to access. I would be surprised if we were the only
> ones who are having a hard time with "mount" talking forever. It's
> just that we never actually looked for better solutions once we
> had the basic functionality in place.

That'd be great if you could find a way that didn't make some other pain
- - it would definitely be better to not have to chop your main storage
area into pieces.

- -Andy
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