[U-Boot] Bricked when trying to attach UBI

[Andreas Bießmann]

Hi Luca,

On 19.12.2012 16:56, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> ...
>>> Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
>>> 0x000000100000-0x000010000000 : "mtd=3"
>>> UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
>>> UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
>>> UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
>>> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
>>> UBI: sub-page size:              512
>>> UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
>>> UBI: data offset:                2048
>>> UBI error: ubi_wl_init_scan: no enough physical eraseblocks (0, need 1)
>>>
>>> Now the device is totally blocked, and power cycling does not change
>>> the result.
>>
>> have you tried to increase the malloc arena in u-boot
>> (CONIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN)?
>> We had errors like this before [1],[2] and [3], maybe others -
>> apparently with another error message, but please give it a try. We know
>> ubi recovery needs some ram and 1MiB may be not enough.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> Unfortunately this does not seem to be the cause of my problem: I tried
> increasing my CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN in include/configs/dig297.h from
> (1024 << 10) to both (1024 << 12) and (1024 << 14), but without any
> difference.

Well, ok ... Malloc arena is always my first thought if I read about
problems with ubi in u-boot.
Have you looked up the differences in drivers/mtd/ubi/ in your u-boot
and linux tree? Maybe you can see something obviously different in the
ubi_wl_init_scan()?

Best regards

Andreas Bießmann