[U-Boot] [PATCH] Make nboot skip bad blocks

Ladislav Michl ladis at linux-mips.org
Mon Mar 16 16:15:52 CET 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:59:28PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 March 2009 09:38:19 Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > nboot command currently does not skip bad blocks and gives read error when
> > loading image stored over bad block. With patch applied, nboot works as
> > expected:
> 
> iirc, some people proposed a new command or an option to nboot to get skip 
> behavior (e.g. nboot.jffs2), but i dont see the value in nboot never skipping 
> bad blocks.  when would anyone ever want to use a boot command and have bad 
> blocks attempt to be processed ?

Ah... Are you reffering to "Loading from NAND using 'nboot' Periodically Fails
Where 'nand read' Succeeds" thread?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/41977/
It seems conclusion was to skip bad blocks by default, but no patch went in.
I'm considering it a bug fix and therefore -rc material...

Best regards,
	ladis


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