From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Huang Shijie Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 22:41:47 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] gpmi-nand driver and jffs2 support In-Reply-To: <201309041600.37107.marex@denx.de> References: <522062B4.4080709@digi.com> <201309031353.18964.marex@denx.de> <52269A56.4030808@freescale.com> <201309041600.37107.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <20130905024145.GA5913@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Huang Shijie, > How come hector was then able to write his JFFS2 partition ? If he uses the gpmi, he should not write the JFFS2, since the gpmi does not support the jffs2. He will get the failure in the end. > > > So the jffs2 support is compatiable all the time. > > Is the old Freescale 2.6.35 GPMI NAND format compatible with the one after > applying this patchset? Not compatible. This patch set is still underreview. > > > > that I could mount with Linux 3.7 and earlier? > > > > I think the mount can be succeeded. > > Ok, does that mean that we need this patchset in U-Boot in order to properly > write JFFS2 onto GPMI NAND there? Is that the message you wanted to relay to us? Besides this patchset, the u-boot needs more patches to sync with the kernel mtd code. Such as the full-id features. thanks Huang Shijie