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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] freescale i.MX28 mxsboot NAND booting on mx28evk bad blocks
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:24:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363814685.25034.17@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130320212007.GL30773@bender.unx.csupomona.edu> (from henson@acm.org on Wed Mar 20 16:20:07 2013)

On 03/20/2013 04:20:07 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:23:27PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> > > I don't think this is having any functional impact, as the scrub
> > > component of burning a new nand image wipes out the bad blocks,
> >
> > You should not be routinely scrubbing NAND!
> >
> > The manufacturers put bad block information there for a reason.
> 
> Hmm, I was following the instructions in doc/README.mx28_common, which
> says to use "run update_nand_full" to burn the NAND image, and one
> component of that per include/configs/mx28evk.h is:
> 
> 	nand scrub -y 0x0 ${filesize}
> 
> Are the instructions/env script incorrect?

The env script is incorrect.  Otavio, Marek, what's going on here?

> I don't believe the bad blocks that linux finds are actual bad blocks,
> and definitely not factory bad blocks. They seem to show up as a
> byproduct of the way u-boot is burning the NAND image. They are always
> at the same addresses (I tried two different NAND chips), and only
> appear when u-boot is used to burn the bootstream, but not when  
> kobs-ng
> is used.

My guess is there's some mismatch regarding NAND layout, but someone  
more familiar with mx28 will need to answer that...

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19  0:50 [U-Boot] freescale i.MX28 mxsboot NAND booting on mx28evk bad blocks Paul B. Henson
2013-03-19 23:23 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-20 21:20   ` Paul B. Henson
2013-03-20 21:24     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-04-04 10:09 ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-06  4:28   ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-06  7:18     ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-11  0:20       ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-11 12:03         ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-11 18:33           ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-11 23:25             ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-20  1:03               ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-20  1:22                 ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-23  0:42                   ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-26  1:13                     ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-29 20:54                       ` Paul B. Henson
2013-04-29 21:01                         ` Marek Vasut
2013-05-04  0:08                         ` Marek Vasut
2013-05-04  6:21                           ` Trent Piepho
2013-05-04 13:20                             ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-13 14:42         ` Marek Vasut
2013-04-13 16:31           ` Trent Piepho
2013-04-13 18:26             ` Marek Vasut

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