Re: UBI FS on 2MiB eraseblock Hynix MLC NAND

[Yauhen Kharuzhy <yauhen.kharuzhy@promwad.com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:08:20AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 10:48 +0300, Viktar Palstsiuk wrote:
> > The problem was caused by behavior of H27UBG8T2ATR Hynix MLC NAND
> > while UBI FS was trying to do page write operation. UBI FS was trying
> > to write data to the first empty page assuming that 0xFF page is
> > erased and writable. But this type of NAND returns error on page write
> > operation even if it was entirely written with 0xFF before. As far as
> > I'm using U-boot's 'nand write' to flash UBI image I've added skip if
> > U-boot trying to write 0xFF-page.
> > 
> > --- drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > +++ drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c	(working copy)
> > @@ -1761,7 +1761,18 @@
> >  			   const uint8_t *buf, int page, int cached, int raw)
> >  {
> >  	int status;
> > +	int i;
> > 
> > +	/* Skip empty page */
> > +	for (i = 0; i < mtd->writesize; i++)
> > +                if (buf[i] != 0xFF)
> > +                        break;
> > +	
> > +	if (i == mtd->writesize) {
> > +		printf ("nand_write_page: Skip 0xFF page\n");
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> > +	
> 
> This solution is not acceptable as we are currently discussing in the
> "GPMI-NAND Status" thread in this mailing list.
> 
> Instead, you should just change u-boot, and I believe someone has done
> this recently - ask the u-boot mailing list. I think that was Ben -
> CCed.

As I understood, above Victor's patch is for U-Boot, not for kernel.


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