[U-Boot] environment in NAND

[Wolfgang Wegner]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:20:51PM +0200, Arno Steffen wrote:
> 
> There is a question left for redundancy, which is imho a bug (or maybe
> I don't get the design concept of redundancy):
>  If I have an empty environment (both standard and redund - env1 and
> env2 ) and boot, it recognizes CRC error (which is ok).
> A "save" write it to redundand environment (0x10.0000). This is
> probably as it recognice an CRCerror in env1 and doesn't check this
> for env2
> 
> If I add some settings ("set test true") and do "save" a second time -
> it writes ONLY to default env (0xc.0000) ?!?
> What happens, that it will change location? Or shouldn't it write to
> both locations ?

there is only one location written.
I don't remember exactly how it works, but there is an algorithm in
place to check which block is newer upon initial read.
Have a look at common/env_nand.c, env_init() to see how it works exactly.

Best regards,

Wolfgang