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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Flash sanity checks
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:19:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909301419.09036.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909301158.22708.dk-arm-linux@gmx.de>

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 11:58:22 Dieter Kiermaier wrote:
> > We use Raw NAND/flash and copy the binary there,
> > After copy,
> > is there a way to check the flash sanity after we have burnt an image?
> > (e.g. by nand reading and diffing with the binary in RAM?)
> >
> > Are there any feature/utility/commands readily available for u-boot?
> 
> I've done it in the past by reading it back to ram and use cmp command.
> Maybe it is usefull for you, too?

Sure, this can be done. But the NAND driver core supports validation of 
written data using this configuration option:

CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE

I would enable it only for test purposes though.

Cheers,
Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 13:55 [U-Boot] kirkwood (openrd): saveenv will not work with environment in NAND Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-29 15:16 ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30  6:21   ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-09-30  7:02     ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30  7:08       ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-09-30  7:40         ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30  7:57           ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-09-30  8:15             ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30  8:17               ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-09-30  8:25                 ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30  9:28                   ` [U-Boot] Flash sanity checks Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-09-30  9:58                     ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-09-30 12:19                       ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2009-10-06 17:16                   ` [U-Boot] kirkwood (openrd): saveenv will not work with environment in NAND Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-09-30 20:32             ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-10-01  7:29               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Make arm926ejs use -mabi=apcs-gnu to avoid EABI problems Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-01  9:56                 ` Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-10-01 18:27                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-10-02 14:44                     ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-05 13:23                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm926ejs: 16-byte align stack to avoid LDRD/STRD problems Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-05 14:30                       ` Andrew Dyer
2009-10-05 14:35                         ` Stefan Roese
2009-10-05 14:53                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-05 15:44                             ` Dieter Kiermaier
2009-10-05 18:37                             ` Tom
2009-10-06  7:07                               ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-05 22:07                             ` Måns Rullgård
2009-10-06  4:13                             ` Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-10-06  6:44                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3] arm926ejs: 8-byte " Simon Kagstrom
2009-10-06 16:50                               ` Tom
2009-10-18  2:15                               ` Tom
2009-10-05 14:40                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm926ejs: 16-byte " Simon Kagstrom

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