barebox nand ignoring bad eraseblocks or read/write

Jon Ringle jon at ringle.org
Sun Sep 11 21:35:29 EDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Jon Ringle <jon at ringle.org> wrote:
> I have a NAND device with a few bad eraseblocks, which is not
> uncommon. I figured that barebox would properly handle avoiding the
> bad eraseblocks.
> So I was surprised when I discovered that this is not entirely the
> case when I #define DEBUG at the top of nand.c. erase seems to honor
> the bad eraseblocks, but write still silently uses the bad erase block
> and read fails when it reads the bad eraseblock at 0x001e0000. Am I
> missing something?

I found that I had CONFIG_GLOB=n and that was causing
/env/bin/hush_hack to fail to create the bad block aware devices with
"nand -a /dev/nand0.*"

Jon



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