[U-Boot] UBI issues on SAMA5D31 NOR flash

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Andy,

Am 29.09.2014 18:40, schrieb Andy Pont:
> Hello,
>
> Using the patches from Bo Shen to support the NOR flash on the Atmel

which patches?

> SAMA5D31EK hardware platform I am trying to get a UBI root file system
> within the NOR flash, at offset 0x10000000 in the memory map, to work but
> get errors from the "ubi part" command using U-Boot 2014.04:
>
> U-Boot>  mtdparts
>
> device nor0<physmap-flash.0>, # parts = 5
>   #: name                size            offset          mask_flags
>   0: bootstrap           0x00020000      0x00000000      1
>   1: u-boot              0x000c0000      0x00020000      1
>   2: fdt                 0x00020000      0x000e0000      0
>   3: kernel              0x00400000      0x00100000      0
>   4: rootfs              0x00a00000      0x00500000      0
>
> active partition: nor0,0 - (bootstrap) 0x00020000 @ 0x00000000
>
> defaults:
> mtdids  : nor0=physmap-flash.0
> mtdparts:
> mtdparts=physmap-flash.0:128k(bootstrap)ro,768k(u-boot)ro,128k(fdt),4m(kerne
> l),10m(rootfs)
>
> U-Boot>  ubi part rootfs
> UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi0
> UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
> UBI: logical eraseblock size:    130944 bytes
> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    1
> UBI: VID header offset:          64 (aligned 64)
> UBI: data offset:                128
> UBI error: vtbl_check: volume table check failed: record 0, error 9

seems ubi does not find the volume table ... could you activate
ubi error messages ubi_err() ?

> UBI error: ubi_init: cannot attach mtd2
> UBI error: ubi_init: UBI error: cannot initialize UBI, error -22
> UBI init error 22
>
> The UBI settings are:
>
> (2048) Image Size
> (130944) Logical Erase Block Size
> (1)   Minimum I/O Size
> [ ]   mkfs.ubifs Space Fixup
> ()    mkfs.ubifs Options
>
> *** UBI Image Properties ***
> [*]   Create UBI Volume
> (10MiB) Root File System Volume Size
> (128 KiB) Physical Erase Block Size
> (1)     Sub-page Size
> ()      ubinize Configuration File
> ()      ubinize Options
>
> Any ideas as to what I have missed?

Did the ubi partition work under linux? Did you tried current ML
U-Boot (there MTD/UBI and UBIFS is synced with linux 3.15) ...

bye,
Heiko
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