[U-Boot] freescale i.MX28 mxsboot NAND booting on mx28evk bad blocks

Trent Piepho tpiepho at gmail.com
Sat Apr 13 18:31:21 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Paul B. Henson,
>
>> Let me just preface this reply with the disclaimer that I'm fairly new
>> to embedded development, and it sounds like you know a lot more about
>> what you're talking about than I do ;).
>
> [...]
>
> I'm not reading the thread as it -- again -- contains loads of baseless "is
> broken" and "doesn't work" accusations left and right, sorry. I am CCing Fabio.

So why did you respond?  Just to tell us you don't care if there are
bugs in mxsboot?

> The issue with the bad sectors is known. This is because the kobs-ng scans the
> NAND and fills the DBBT. This is not something that can be done off-line, so the

You misunderstand, flashing with u-boot marks the sectors as bad.
It's not necessary to ever use kobs-ng to see the problem, so it can't
possibly be the cause.


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