From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [RFC] NAND Flash
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:45:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408E0F8E.1070309@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2574043332486841A5B27A5FE9769E4501447B4B@esealnt888.al.sw.ericsson.se>
Peter Billek (VI/SEA) wrote:
>We are in the progress of starting to implement u-boot and will need NAND support as well.
>
>As it looks at the moment we will access the NAND flash not in page boundaries, but rather with arbitrary offsets.
>At the moment we are using something similar to the boot command with is still a adaptation from former armboot.
>We don't use ECC and also no FS, rather fixed addresses. However this has to change in the future, but for the moment we are just prototyping.
>
I hope you don't solder your chips on the board, cause bad blocks can be
present in pristine chips fresh from the factory.
This will NOT work, since a bad block anywhere in the range that you use
means that you must replace the chip.
>AS or the bad block cheeking, I would rather go for the relocation implementation rather than the erasing the complete chip.
>
>
Me too, but it's kinda tricky...
>I am looking forward to see how your work progresses and might commit to it in the future as well if I can.
>
>
Looking forward to it too.
>greetings
>Peter Billek
>Board Level Design, Realtime SW
>Local Design Center VIE
>Ericsson Enterprise GmbH
>mailto:peter.billek at ericsson.com
>
>
Regards
Pantelis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-27 7:42 [U-Boot-Users] [RFC] NAND Flash Peter Billek
2004-04-27 7:45 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
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2004-04-27 13:52 Dave Ellis
2004-04-27 12:46 Woodruff, Richard
2004-04-27 12:44 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-27 12:39 Woodruff, Richard
2004-04-27 12:42 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-27 14:13 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-04-27 11:46 VanBaren, Gerald
2004-04-27 7:08 Pantelis Antoniou
2004-06-06 21:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-07 5:54 ` Pantelis Antoniou
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