[U-Boot-Users] Problem with JFFS2 summary on NOR-flash

[U-Boot-Users] Problem with JFFS2 summary on NOR-flash

[Anders Grafstrom]

Hello,
I tried to use the summary feature of JFFS2 on NOR-flash and ended up 
with U-boot failing to read the filesystem. The reason for this turned 
out to be that the JFFS2 scanning code in U-boot makes a write to the 
flash memory area.

Unlinked dirents are not marked obsolete when summary is enabled and 
this leads U-Boot to the line "jOld->ino = 0;" in compare_dirents(). 
jOld points to flash memory in the case of NOR-flash.

Without dcache this problem is not noticed as 0x00 seems to be a NOOP. 
But with dcache you get either an exception if you have ROM protection 
enabled or the flash chip might flip into read query mode when the cache 
line is written. The latter happened for me.

I tried implementing get_fl_mem() with malloc() similar to the NAND code 
but this made things VERY slow. I'm guessing that removing the 
problematic line and making the code somehow sort out the highest 
version of the dirents is better?

Regards, Anders