Thread: U-boot is now in extras-devel
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2010-11-04 , 01:14
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#48
Funny enough lunat, I was just PM'ing Matan about an hour ago, and I found out that the sync command isn't actually necessary, because according to him:

Originally Posted by Matan
sync is only relevant if you use the Linux block system, which flasher (actually, softupd) does not use. Anyway, you are supposed to reboot the system normally, not by taking out the battery. The Linux kernel, obviously, does not exit without completely flushing all buffers to the relevant devices.
In short, assuming you shutdown/reboot normally, the kernel will do the sync anyway - the sync only helps if for some reason the battery is yanked after you flash.
 

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