From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1S5xBx-0007mN-Ta for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:36:58 +0000 Message-ID: <1331289554.22872.61.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: cfi: Wait for Block Erase operation to finish From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Paul Parsons Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:39:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1330554395.65878.YahooMailClassic@web29011.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <1330554395.65878.YahooMailClassic@web29011.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Joakim Tjernlund , philipp.zabel@gmail.com Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 22:26 +0000, Paul Parsons wrote: > --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > Did you try to validate your setup > > with mtd tests? > > No I did not. > > I've just quickly tried the readtest on all mtd partitions and they seemed > to pass. A torturetest on a small unused partition reported "retried 3 > times, still errors, give-up", but a stresstest on the same partition passed. > > Was there a specific test and set of options I should try? > The hx4700 has NOR flash (Intel StrataFlash) so it looks like at least 4 > of the tests - pagetest, oobtest, subpagetest, nandecctest - are not > appropriate. In the past all tests either worked on nor or refused to load. I thought stresstest should work as well. I do not have any specific test in mind, threw out standard suggestion I give to people :-) -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy