[PATCH 0/8] Qi solve GTA02 dynparts compatability and parse idenity partition

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Wed Feb 4 19:47:08 CET 2009


Paul Fertser wrote:
> In this case, yes. With Qi in NAND that's not so, as far as i
> understand. Nevertheless, what will be if one block wears out in the
> kernel partition? The user won't be able to even mount his NAND rootfs
> after the next boot to save configuration/data and that is probably
> important for many users.

You mean that the work-out block would change the offset calculation ?
That won't happen, because the work-out block gets marked only in the
BBT and Qi does't look there. (See my previous mail on the topic.)

> That is, to be absolutely sure that the flashing will be done to the
> correct addresses, everytime before dfu-ing anything a user must issue
> a dynpart command in NOR u-boot?

Naw, NOR u-boot takes care of that for you. See the script starting at
line 87 of http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/devirginator/mknor

> Basically, people tried to "nandwrite -pm /dev/mtd3 uImage-GTA02.bin"
> and nandwrite marked plenty of blocks bad.

Hmm, did they  flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3  first ?
If not, nandwrite will understandably get rather confused and the
-m makes sure this far from the end of your worries ...

Actually, where do these flash instructions come from ? I thought we
used to have them right ...

- Werner



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