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[ts-7000] Re: Fastboot off the NAND memory on a 7260?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Fastboot off the NAND memory on a 7260?
From: "bburtan65" <>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 18:48:38 -0000
That sounds promising.  I don't really have a need to customize Linux.  My 
design just simply needs to fire up my app as quickly as possible even if it 
wasn't gracefully shut down which is why I want to avoid EXT2 file systems.

What boot times are you seeing with this setup?




--- In  "bsmuck2000" <> wrote:
>
> It is possible. We are using a nand-based fastboot system for the 7260.  
> Jesse Off at Technologics did some custom work for us to allow the 7260 to 
> boot from an initrd and kernel saved to nand.
> 
> We use a special version of ts-bootromupdate (sp??) to load the fastboot 
> bootloader code into the e2prom.
> 
> This process is not reversible, and mistakes during the process can easily 
> brick a unit.  (We have an "unbrick" expect script which uses serialblaster, 
> which we have used many times.)
> 
> So right now we use a 7260 with fastboot nand configuration, load a 2.6 eabi 
> kernel and we're good to go.  I don't recommend it to everyone, but it works 
> really well for us.
> 
> Brian
> 
> --- In  "bburtan65" <bburtan65@> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to set up a 7260 for fast boot from the onboard flash 
> > memory?  If not, why not?
> >
>




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