[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] sunxi_nand_spl: Be smarter about where to look for backup u-boot.bin

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 15:19 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21-09-15 14:19, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 13:24 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 21-09-15 12:22, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 15:39 -0400, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > > We know when u-boot is written to its own partition, in this case
> > > > > the
> > > > > layout always is:
> > > > > 
> > > > > eb 0 spl
> > > > > eb 1 spl-backup
> > > > > eb 2 u-boot
> > > > > eb 3 u-boot-backup
> > > > > 
> > > > > eb: erase-block
> > > > > 
> > > > > So if we cannot load u-boot from its primary offset we know
> > > > > exactly
> > > > > where
> > > > > to look for it.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it worth noting here (or perhaps in a code comment?) that the
> > > > code
> > > > currently assumes that the first four ebs are of uniform size?
> > > 
> > > The eraseblock size is a property of the nand, given a certain nand
> > > chip,
> > > all eraseblocks on that chip always have the same size.
> > 
> > So they never have "boot erase zones" at either the start or end, which
> > divide one of the erase zones into more fine-grained sizes?
> > 
> > e.g. it used to be the case with NOR that with, say, a 128KB device you
> > would have zones of 3x32K, 1x16K, 2x8K or something like that rather
> > than
> > simply 4x32K.
> > 
> > They don't do this with NAND then?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge no.

Thanks.

In which case:
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>