Re: [PATCH 2/2] dts:imx6:pfla02: Align nand partitions by 512k

[Christian Hemp <c.hemp@phytec.de>]

Hello Sascha,

Am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2015, 09:09:27 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> + Teresa, Jan and Christian
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 02:48:55PM +0300, Dmitry Lavnikevich wrote:
> > NAND chip used on phyFLEX-i.MX6 with 4GB NAND (MT29F32G08AFACAWP) has
> > 512k eraseblock size.
> > 
> > Align NAND partitions by 512k to fix erase fails.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Lavnikevich <d.lavnikevich@sam-solutions.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi | 8 ++++----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi
> > b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi index
> > 32ce088fee48..52b279057a33 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi
> > @@ -95,22 +95,22 @@
> > 
> >  	partition@1 {
> >  	
> >  		label = "barebox-environment";
> > 
> > -		reg = <0x400000 0x20000>;
> > +		reg = <0x400000 0x80000>;
> > 
> >  	};
> >  	
> >  	partition@2 {
> >  	
> >  		label = "oftree";
> > 
> > -		reg = <0x420000 0x20000>;
> > +		reg = <0x480000 0x80000>;
> > 
> >  	};
> 
> The partition size for barebox-environment and the devicetree used to be
> one eraseblock only. Now it's again only one eraseblock at least for the
> 4k Page size variants. If one of those blocks is bad the board becomes
> unusable. I think the partitions should be at least two eraseblocks.
> That of course would make them quite big.
> 
> Any opinions about this?

we agree with your opinion.

Chritian

> 
> Sascha


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