[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 3/5] nand: FSL UPM NAND driver

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Jan 15 09:41:37 CET 2008


On Monday 14 January 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:31:06PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> >
> > This seems to be based on the current NAND infrastructure. You might have
> > noticed that I'm trying right now to merge the patches from William Yuul
> > with the Linux 2.6.22 based NAND subsystem.
>
> This is great news. Though, using u-boot-nand-flash tree I see that
> write.jffs2 isn't actually working (bad blocks skipping unimplemented),
> and read.jffs2 is unimplemented in whole...
>
> Without .jffs2 variants nand support is almost useless. :-/

Yes, I was thinking how we should handle this NAND MTD update currently. I'll 
post a different mail about this in a short while.

> Unfortunately 
> I don't have much time to help you with these updating efforts,
> implementing .jffs2... so I'd be glad if you'll ack second version of the
> patch[1] so we'll able to use it today with old nand layer. And I'll
> provide another patch[2] for your tree, that will update fsl_upm to use new
> infrastructure (tested to work on good blocks).
>
> Will send [1] and [2] real soon now.

OK, if we all agree on how to handle the switch to the new NAND MTD subsystem 
(see other mail), then I'll accept your NAND driver patch right now. Let's 
wait how this discussion evolves.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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