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

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Trent Piepho,

> 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?

To CC Fabio to let him handle this issue, we obviously cannot work together.

> > 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.

Then blank DBBT is also a problem.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut