From cc734f5ab26134e5e8d57c34edc257c89ac5b1d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Burton Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:16:59 +0100 Subject: cmd_ubi: add write.part command, to write a volume in multiple parts This allows you to write data to an UBI volume when the amount of memory available to write that data from is less than the total size of the data. For example, you may split a root filesystem UBIFS image into parts, provide the total size of the image to the first write.part command and then use multiple write.part commands to write the subsequent parts of the volume. This results in a sequence of commands akin to: ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.0 ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000 0x18000000 ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.1 ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000 ext4load mmc 0:1 0x80000000 rootfs.ubifs.2 ubi write.part 0x80000000 root 0x08000000 This would write 384MiB of data to the UBI volume 'root' whilst only requiring 128MiB of said data to be held in memory at a time. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Acked-by: Stefan Roese --- doc/README.ubi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/README.ubi') diff --git a/doc/README.ubi b/doc/README.ubi index 3cf4ef232d..d82c75c848 100644 --- a/doc/README.ubi +++ b/doc/README.ubi @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ ubi part [part] [offset] ubi info [l[ayout]] - Display volume and ubi layout information ubi create[vol] volume [size] [type] - create volume name with size ubi write[vol] address volume size - Write volume from address with size +ubi write.part address volume size [fullsize] + - Write part of a volume from address ubi read[vol] address volume [size] - Read volume to address with size ubi remove[vol] volume - Remove volume [Legends] @@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ ubi createvol Create UBI volume on UBI device ubi removevol Remove UBI volume from UBI device ubi read Read data from UBI volume to memory ubi write Write data from memory to UBI volume +ubi write.part Write data from memory to UBI volume, in parts Here a few examples on the usage: -- cgit v1.2.3