[U-Boot] "nand biterr" ... got an implementation?

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Apr 22 18:19:22 CEST 2009


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:38:27PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> I was hoping that I could use that to test some NAND code, but
> then I noticed it wasn't implemented.  I would have expected that
> U-Boot command wouldn't exist until they're implemented...

Sorry about that. :-(

It probably existed in an older version of the NAND code, and never got
reimplemented.

> I'm hoping someone has an implementation.  With at least these
> characteristics:
> 
>  - Doesn't toggle the same bit each time
>  - Repeating N times on a block introduces N distinct 1-bit errors
>  - Normally affects only the data area, not spare/OOB
>      * although forcing bit errors in ECC would be valuable too
>      * ditto the rest of the OOB ... though likely they'd be ignored

A general write-to-oob command would be nice as well.

-Scott


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