[U-Boot-Users] IMPORTANT NOTE to all maintainers with NAND flash

[Pantelis Antoniou]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:21, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> this is a "heads up" note to all  maintainers  of  boards  with  NAND
> flash: 
> 
> I am going to drop support for the old NAND flash code and replace it
> by Ladislav Michl's rewrite, which is available in the "testing-NAND"
> branch of our git repository.
> 
> This new code has been available for testing for 6 months, and I have
> not received any negative feedback (I did not  receive  any  positive
> feedback,  either  - but if you did not care until now you should not
> complain later).
> 
> 
> Dropping the support for the old code means that the  build  for  all
> boards  that use NAND currently will *break*. I am aware that this is
> not a nice thing to do, but I see no other way to get  the  attention
> of  the  board maintainers and force them to update their code to the
> new way for their boards. This should be not be  very  hard,  though.
> Since  the  new  implementation  is  borrowed from Linux, it is quite
> likely that the said boards could use the new  NAND  support  already
> present for them in the Linux source.
> 
> 
> We will now merge the "testing-NAND" branch back into the main  tree;
> once  this  is done, I will allow for a transition period of 4 weeks.
> After this, the old code will be removed, even if it  breaks  support
> for some boards.
> 
> 

I did test it, it works.

A few things are missing but most are doable.


> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

Regards

Pantelis