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Flash lab: make sure people don't use U-Boot from MMC
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- Will need to investigate the issue
  With U-Boot build from the MMC configuration, U-Boot
  sees a subpage of 512 bytes (instead of 2048) on the Xplained board,
  and this is incompatible with what Linux sees. Hence U-Boot
  cannot use a UBI space that Linux can use.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
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\code{mtd-utils} package, which will be useful to create UBIFS and
UBI images.
Also remove the SD card, to resume to the former way of booting.
That's important because there is currently an issue with U-Boot
compiled from the MMC configuration, which causes UBI incompatibilities
between U-Boot and Linux.
\section{Goals}
Instead of using an external SD card as in the previous lab, we will
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