[OLPC-devel] NAND/JFFS2 support for Filo?

[Ivan Krstic]

Goodrich,Steven wrote:
> he asked why we don't add NAND media support to
> FILO, and simply use that to load the kernel from the NAND flash
> device. 

In this scenario, if you deleted your kernel from the flash, your laptop
turns into a brick. That's no good; if I understand correctly, the plan
is to have the LinuxBIOS be able to reflash a laptop to a default state
via some mechanism (PXE?).

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