[U-Boot-Users] What's the status on erasing a nand flash with bad blocks?

Stefan Roese
2006-10-06T19:43:42Z

Hi Tolunay,

On Friday 06 October 2006 17:11, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
> > I would suggest that we change the current U-Boot code, so that erasing
> > doesn't stop at bad blocks anymore, but skips them and prints a message,
> > like the linux flash_eraseall utility:
> >
> > "Skipping bad block at 0x%08x"
>
> Last time we discussed this on the list I suggested we only print a
> summary at the end instead of for each skipped block. Summary would
> state how many bad blocks skipped during operation in all. We have
> another command to list the bad blocks (AFAIK) if one is interested at all.

OK.

I'll try to take a deeper look into the patch from Guido this weekend. Looks
promising.

Best regards,
Stefan