[U-Boot-Users] NAND driver updates

[Matthias Fuchs]

Hi Stefan,

I totally agree with your suggestion. Let's move the NAND update into 
a separate branch for testing.

The missing or faulty NAND features are an absolute no-go because we
use NAND on many of our boards. But we definitely should not lose track
of the NAND updates. Especially William's YAFFS support is a cool outstanding
feature I would love to see in the main repo sooner or later.

Matthias

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 09:49, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > I just updated the master branch of the NAND custodian repository with the
> > patches from William Juul:
> >
> > http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot/u-boot-nand-flash.git;a=shor
> >tlog;h=master
> >
> > This patchset brings the U-Boot NAND subsystem in sync again with the Linux
> > 2.6.22.1 NAND code. Thanks go to William Juul and his colleagues for the
> > hard
> 
> As it seems the current status of the new NAND subsystem provided by William 
> Juul and his colleges, has still some problems. As far as I see it right now 
> here a list (please let me know if I missed something):
> 
> - DOC support broken and removed for now
>   - needs to be ported and tested on HW with DOC
> - 'nand read.jffs2/.i' not implemented at all
> - 'nand write.jffs2/.i' not implemented correctly
>   - Doesn't skip bad blocks
>   - From my quick first look, it doesn't write the OOB correctly
> - Extensive testing on other platforms needed
> 
> So with all these flaws, it doesn't make sense from my point of view, to pull 
> these changes into the official U-Boot repository in this merge window. I 
> think we should delay this merge for 1 or 2 U-Boot versions, until the 
> problems mentioned above are resolved.
> 
> Any thoughts/comments on this?
> 
> If we agree on this merge delay, then I suggest that I move this mtd update 
> into a different branch (it's currently in the master branch :-() of the 
> u-boot-nand-flash repository and base the master branch on the master branch 
> of Wolfgang's official repository. This way updates and fixes to the "old" 
> NAND subsystem can be handled better.
> 
> Again, any comments?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> 
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