[U-Boot] Enabling nand createbbt command

[Bud Miljkovic]

Charles

That is interesting.  Any clue how to configure the start and end blocks
manually?

Bud

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Manning [mailto:manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 12 March 2012 8:20 a.m.
> To: Bud Miljkovic
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Enabling nand createbbt command
> 
> Bud
> 
> Yaffs can work without mtdpart. To do that you just need to configure
> the
> start and end blocks manually instead of using the partition info to
do
> this.
> 
> On Friday 09 March 2012 13:58:48 Bud Miljkovic wrote:
> > Thank you Scott and Fabio,
> >
> > You help is much appreciated.
> >
> > I will try to add the nand support for mx53 mainline.
> >
> > However, what I am trying to do is to build a u-boot that supports
> NAND
> > and have YAFFS2 as well and at moment I use the mx53_ard board since
> > this is very close to what my custom board will be.  I was able to
> build
> > such a version, using Freescale u-boot sources, which included nand
> > subsystem, and yaffs commands.  Then I needed to create partitions
in
> > the nand and this is where i "discovered" I needed the support of
> > mtdparts command.
> >
> > So I, guess, I need to configure the u-boot for mtdparts support.
> This
> > is where I am at.
> >
> > -Bud
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Wood
> > > Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 12:04 p.m.
> > > To: Bud Miljkovic
> > > Cc: Fabio Estevam;
> > >
> >  > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Enabling nand createbbt command
> > >
> > > I do expect mainline is better maintained and supported, except
for
> > > missing particular features/hardware support that nobody ever
> bothered
> > >
> > > to submit to mainline -- which in this case appears to be hardware
> > > that you care about, so unless you're prepared to do a fair bit of
> > > work to add support to mainline, I'd try again to find a support
> > > channel for your Freescale-provided U-Boot.  Or maybe we could
help
> > > you figure out what it is you want to do, instead of scrubbing, if
> the
> > >
> > > answer doesn't depend on details of a non-standard U-Boot.
> > >
> > > Oh, and if you're curious about my freescale.com e-mail address, I
> > > work in a different part of the company and don't have i.MX
> knowledge
> > > or contacts.
> > >
> > > -Scott
> >
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