[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/6] i.MX31: Add NAND support and new PDK board.

Magnus Lilja
2009-01-26T18:21:40Z

Wolfgang,

2009/1/24 Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>:
> Dear Jean-Christophe,
>
> in message <1219998982-21289-1-git-send-email-lilja.magnus@gmail.com> Magnus Lilja you wrote:
>>
>> This series of patches adds support for the NAND flash controller in the
>> i.MX31 device and also introduces the Freescale i.MX31 PDK board.
>
> As far as I can see these patches have never been applied.
>
> Will you please have a look? Thanks.

If I remember correctly there were two issues:
1) The patches didn't have support for booting from NAND so it relied
on some other entity to do the booting
2) The NAND driver was not accepted

Regarding 1) other people have posted patches that would allow the PDK
to boot properly from NAND. The last set of patches used the existing
nand_spl framework, however there were some comments on those patches
(minor comments in my opinion) but an updated patch-set that added
NAND-boot hasn't been posted. Last I've noticed in the subject is this
thread:http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-December/044266.html
with a followup from me in January.

Regarding 2) there were other attempts at submitting a NAND driver for
the controller that Freescale uses in i.MX31 and some other non-ARM
SoC, but I don't know what happened with that effort. Scott made some
comments as he pointed out a couple of hours ago.

Regards, Magnus