[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Fix the NAND size overflow issue.

Jin Zhengxiong-R64188 Jason.Jin at freescale.com
Tue Sep 23 04:20:58 CEST 2008


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Gehrlein [mailto:Jens.Gehrlein at tqs.de] 
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:05 PM
> To: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188; Wood Scott-B07421
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: RE: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Fix the NAND size overflow issue.
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de
> > [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]On Behalf Of Jason Jin
> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:33 AM
> > To: scottwood at freescale.com
> > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Jason Jin
> > Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] Fix the NAND size overflow issue.
> > 
> > 
> > When the NAND size is or large than 4G, the size will overflow, The 
> > adjustment in this patch try to fix this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Jin <Jason.jin at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c 
> b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c index 
> > ebd2acd..71a0e4b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c
> > @@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ void nand_init(void)
> >  	unsigned int size = 0;
> >  	for (i = 0; i < CFG_MAX_NAND_DEVICE; i++) {
> >  		nand_init_chip(&nand_info[i], &nand_chip[i], 
> base_address[i]);
> > -		size += nand_info[i].size;
> > +		size += nand_info[i].size / 1024;
> >  		if (nand_curr_device == -1)
> >  			nand_curr_device = i;
> >  	}
> > -	printf("%u MiB\n", size / (1024 * 1024));
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> According to this line I suppose, the value of 
> nand_info[i].size is in Bytes. So, if the NAND chip is >= 4 
> GiB this variable has already been overflowed, when 
> nand_init_chip returns.
> Indeed, I didn't check the source code of the NAND driver. Am 
> I wrong or did you modify the driver?
> 
Hi, Jens,
You are right, the nand_info[i].size is in Bytes. and this patch just 
can fix those chips with memory cell less than 4GBytes.
The  nand_info[i].size is widly used in u-boot, If change it to MByte, 
lots of tests need to do.

Thanks
Jaosn 


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