Paid Support for iMX6 Port

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi Russell, thank you.

If we cannot boot from an onboard flash, this will be a deal breaker for us. In our current hardware, you can take the SD Card out and the system still boots up. Furthermore, you can put a completely blank SD Card and then reinstall everything since the system is running.

With kind regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Haley [mailto:russ.haley at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 2:11 PM
To: Michel Kohanim <michel at universal-devices.com>; freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Paid Support for iMX6 Port

>> 5.       Support for booting from NAND flash or eMMC
> No, there is no support at this time. There is basic NAND support on 
> one of the chips, but it has proven to be too deficient to be of much 
> use (single bit parity, no use of hardware ECC and other major 
> deficiencies).
Sorry, even if there was a driver for it, there is no Filesystem designed to use eMMC or NAND directly. My understanding is typically the flash controller provides a standardized SATA path for accessing the NAND as if it's a disk (yet another developer make speak more to this). GNU/Linux equivalent is yaffs or jfs2 (I think).

Cheers,

Russ