[U-Boot] nand sector size is zero in jffs2 cmds

Derek Ou derek at siconix.com
Tue Dec 23 22:44:54 CET 2008


The "### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###" error and the zero NAND 
sector size problem can be fixed by the following patch.  However, the 
jffs2 scanning routine does not skip the bad blocks in NAND though.

Derek
************* patch **************
index 7866c80..f6966f3 100644
--- a/common/cmd_jffs2.c
+++ b/common/cmd_jffs2.c
@@ -1853,6 +1853,8 @@ int mtdparts_init(void)
                if (part->size == SIZE_REMAINING)
                        part->size = id->size - part->offset;
 
+               part->sector_size = nand_info[id->num].erasesize;
+
                DEBUGF("part  : name = %s, size = 0x%08lx, offset = 
0x%08lx\n",
                                part->name, part->size, part->offset);

Derek Ou wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> When I tested jffs2 command for NAND, I found that jffs2_1pass.c:: 
> jffs2_1pass_build_lists() fails at
>    u32 nr_sectors = part->size/part->sector_size;
> because part->sector_size is zero.  And cause the "### ERROR ### 
> Please RESET the board ###" error when entering the for loop (i < 
> nr_sectors), I think.
>
> It looks like the sector_size was not updated in mtdparts_init().  
> According to cmd_jffs2.c, the mtdparts_init in the #ifdef 
> CONFIG_JFFS2_CMDLINE section calls the parse_mtdparts() and eventually 
> reach the following lines in part_validate_nand():
>    nand = &nand_info[id->num];
>    part->sector_size = nand->erasesize;
> However, the other mtdparts_init(), which is not in the #ifdef 
> CONFIG_JFFS2_CMDLINE section, does not call parse_mtdparts() and it 
> may lead to the part->sector_size not initialized.
>
> I am not totally familiar with this jffs2 and nand code.  Can someone 
> review this?  Thanks.
> Derek
>



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