From: boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com (Boris Brezillon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [linux-sunxi] ARM: sunxi: Experiences NAND flash
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:48:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150817094859.7dae8c96@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55CB4AA3.9050809@schinagl.nl>
Hi Oliver,
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:31:15 +0200
Olliver Schinagl <oliver+list@schinagl.nl> wrote:
> Hey Yassin,
>
> I'm affraid. The strange thing that seems very related here is that when
> writing a file onto the flash, it fails and succeeds alternating. It
> never fails or succeeds twice in a row! And this on any board and any
> partition.
I don't know if you only pasted half your command sequence, but it
seems you are writing twice on the same memory region without erasing it,
and this is prohibited on NAND devices.
Try with:
# flash_erase /dev/mtd0 && nandwrite -p /dev/mtd0 u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
Best Regards,
Boris
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-11 12:16 ARM: sunxi: Experiences NAND flash Olliver Schinagl
2015-08-17 7:34 ` Boris Brezillon
2015-08-17 7:51 ` [linux-sunxi] " Michal Suchanek
2015-08-17 8:30 ` Roy Spliet
2015-08-17 9:03 ` Boris Brezillon
[not found] ` <55CB4AA3.9050809@schinagl.nl>
2015-08-17 7:48 ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
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