[U-Boot] ubi part failing on NAND

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Friday 18 December 2009 16:07:40 Jeff Angielski wrote:
> Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On Friday 18 December 2009 13:35:26 hedwin wrote:
> >> Jeff, what is the size of your allocateble memory. Had to increase it to
> >>  4MB to get it working.
> >
> > I've got 1MByte for my test on Kilauea. This should be enough. There
> > is already a compile-time check in the UBI code:
> >
> >
> > #if (CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN < (512 << 10))
> > #error Malloc area too small for UBI, increase CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN to
> > >= 512k #endif
> >
> > Please let me know if this really is not enough. But for me, 1MB is
> > working.
> 
> As per Hedwin's suggestion I increased my CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN to 4MB
> and the error disappeared.  Thanks Hedwin!  And now the UBI output
> matches my part (e.g. PEB size).

Hmmm. Must be because my test platform used a small page NAND device. I'll 
give it a try on a large page NAND soon. The code must be lacking a check for 
malloc failure.

Cheers,
Stefan

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