From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Booting from NAND on MX51
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:03:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r5olf9rd.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b73d43f1002151349t6ac45b05g30f98e7b7cbc0a8a@mail.gmail.com> (John Rigby's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:49:54 -0700")
Hi,
> I would not be surprised to see JFFS2 problems with most i.MX
> platforms. The nand ecc includes the spare area so you can not write
> a JFFS2 free marker to spare and then later write to the main area.
> There are patches for JFFS2 in the kernel for this. I don't know
> about u-boot.
Also as a general remark, JFFS2 on larger devices _is_ really slow.
Because of this _and_ the handling on blocks going bad on reads, we
therefore suggest to our customers to use UBI + UBIFS on NAND.
Best wishes
Detlev
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-10 11:08 [U-Boot] Booting from NAND on MX51 Andreas Orfanos
2010-02-10 11:43 ` Stefano Babic
2010-02-10 12:23 ` Andreas Orfanos
2010-02-10 13:54 ` Eric Bénard
2010-02-10 14:55 ` Andreas Orfanos
2010-02-10 15:16 ` Eric Bénard
2010-02-11 10:25 ` Andreas Orfanos
2010-02-11 11:45 ` Detlev Zundel
2010-02-11 12:20 ` Stefano Babic
2010-02-15 18:15 ` Andreas Orfanos
2010-02-15 21:49 ` John Rigby
2010-02-16 16:03 ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
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