OpenBMC Image Management

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 12:15 -0500, Adriana Kobylak wrote:
> General:
> * Move to UBI volume management (on the BMC and PNOR chips), which
> provides dynamic partitioning and wear-leveling. In a limited flash
> space environment there might be the need to re-allocate partition
> space and resizing in a static partitioning implementation can be
> very painful.
> * Use CRAMFS for read-only partitions, and UBIFS for read-write
> partitions.

I still don't understand what is the point of using UBI on a 32M or 64M
NOR flash. Other than wasting space and time.

Ben.