FW: Handling boot on NAND Bad Blocks

[Kjell Ove Røte]

Hi Robert

In the original case the board just reboots when the Barebox is to be loaded from the bootstream image. 
In log below you see that the power_prep and boot_prep is run but the Barebox is not started at all. 
So, in this case there is no Barebox issue, but I was looking for if there are some mechanism for handling boot environment, kernel load etc with Bad block management. 
For example something like writing and loading a kernel image, using skip block method, from a partition with bad blocks and image cannot be stored over linear addresses.

Booting an image where Barebox is stored in a NAND Bad Block:

PowerPrep start initialize power...

Configured for 5v only power source. Battery powered operation disabled.

Turbine PowerPrep POWER RESET, EMC hardness
Disable the chip shutting down by a fast falling edge of PSWITCH
Nov 24 201608:57:28
FRAC 0x92925552
Wait for ddr ready 1power 0x00820616
Frac 0x92925552
start change cpu freq
hbus 0x00000003
cpu 0x00010001
start test memory accress
ddr2 0x40000000
finish simple test
0x8050100b
0x8050800f

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Schwebel [mailto:r.schwebel at pengutronix.de] 
Sent: torsdag 23. november 2017 18.12
To: Kjell Ove Røte <kjellove.rote at zenitel.com>
Cc: barebox at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: FW: Handling boot on NAND Bad Blocks

Hi Kjell,

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 01:45:22PM +0000, Kjell Ove Røte wrote:
> We have a product on the Freescale imx28 booting from a NAND Flash.
> Lately we have seen high numbers of boards failing, and find we have 
> received batches with marked bad blocks in lower boot addresses of 
> Flash.

Is it possible to have a look at the fails? Log output, maybe dumps...

rsc
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