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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:13:44 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] NAND search for bad blocks on startup 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2006 11:46:43 PDT."
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In message <200605081846.k48IkhDL017032@xdr.com> you wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. I guess I don't really understand the reasons why the nand bad was
> done automatically on startup in the first place. I'm mainly just
> speaking of during development -- 5-10 seconds additional delay on
> each iteration of testing out u-boot adds up. So it would be nice to
> be able to *not* do the nand bad intentionally at startup during
> development.

Don't enable NAND support in your board config file until  the  other
areas  in your code are debugged; then enable it when you want to get
NAND working.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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