[U-Boot] mtdparts fails with NAND >= 4GB

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Jan 28 02:06:09 CET 2011


On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:24:31 -0800
Aaron Williams <Aaron.Williams at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> It looks like the mtd partitioning code fails if the flash size exceeds a u32. 
> I am working with an 8GB flash chip on our board and was wondering if anyone 
> else has any experience with MTD with a chip this large?

There's been some effort to make the U-Boot NAND code work with large
devices, but it's not complete.  Patches to take care of the rest of
the problem spots are welcome, especially if you have hardware to
test.

-Scott



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