U-Boot with direct NVMe boot support for eMMC/SPI Flash
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(11-30-2019, 01:13 AM)clover Wrote: Well done, I am happy to see that we can boot our PBPs from the NVMe... how drastic is the performance increase? do you happen to have any comparative specs, OP?

No, because there isn't any performance increase.
It's just a bootloader: kernel, device tree and initrd aren't big enough to benefit from NVMe speeds.
The only diference is that it now you can keep boot files directly on your NVMe drive and not bother with mounting eMMC as /boot.
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RE: U-Boot with direct NVMe boot support - by pcm720 - 11-30-2019, 10:28 AM

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