Re: MTK Smart Device Gen1 NAND Driver - Testing on MT7623

[John Crispin <blogic-p3rKhJxN3npAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>]

On 28/04/2016 05:37, xiaolei li wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 07:43 -0400, Jorge Ramirez wrote:
>> 
>> On 04/27/2016 04:41 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>> > thanks for the info. i tried that aswell as some other settings but none
>> > makes the flash work. lets see if Jorge has some ideas. otherwise i will
>> > wait for V4.
>> 
>> we are about to post v4 (need another day or two); we have major 
>> differences as to how the bad blocks are being marked and some other 
>> optimizations. if you don't mind upgrading to that version then we can 
>> help you debug on your side.
>> 
>> btw, does any of the mtd tests pass? oobtest, pagetest..?
>> 
>> I am also adding Xiaolei to the thread (we have been working together on 
>> this driver)
>> 
>> 
> Hi John.
> 
> As Jorge said, we will post v4 soon. You can have a try then.
> 
> Also, if you wanna use V3 now. I think you can have a try to set
> spare_per_sector = <32>. In V4, there will be no this setting in DT
> file.
> 
> Thanks
> Xiaolei
> 

Hi

i tried 32 and that just makes the driver spew errors during probe :-)

i'll wait for V4 and test using that version
	
	John

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