[U-Boot] [PATCH - RFC] env_nand.c: fail gracefully if no nand is present

From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH - RFC] env_nand.c: fail gracefully if no nand is	present
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:36:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C69AF5E.2090608@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281994238.2052.37.camel@quadra>

On 08/16/2010 04:30 PM, Steve Sakoman wrote:
> Rationale:
>
> The upcoming Beagle xM, unlike previous Beagles, has no on-board NAND.
>
> I'd like to continue to have a single version of u-boot that works for
> all version of Beagles.  Therefore I need to have env_nand fail
> gracefully when it runs on the xM.
>
> The patch below does the job, but I am not sure that my method of
> checking for the existence of nand (nand_info[0].type = 0 when no nand
> detected) is "correct"?  Any opinions or advice?

I just applied Mike's patch for this a few days ago:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-nand-flash.git;a=commitdiff;h=962ad59e25640e586e2bceabf67a628a27f8f508

-Scott

>
> Steve
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/common/env_nand.c b/common/env_nand.c
> index a15a950..325f112 100644
> --- a/common/env_nand.c
> +++ b/common/env_nand.c
> @@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ int readenv (size_t offset, u_char * buf)
>
>   	u_char *char_ptr;
>
> +	/* fail if no nand detected */
> +	if (nand_info[0].type == 0)
> +		return 1;
> +
>   	blocksize = nand_info[0].erasesize;
>   	len = min(blocksize, CONFIG_ENV_SIZE);
>
>
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