[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: at91: gardena-smart-gateway-at91sam: Enable CONFIG_SYS_NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT

Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com
Thu Sep 12 06:07:00 UTC 2019



On 11.09.2019 16:13, Stefan Roese wrote:

> 
> Hi Eugen,
> 
> On 27.08.19 09:54, Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27.08.2019 09:14, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This patch enables the BBT in NAND on the AT91SAM based GARDENA smart
>>> Gateway. This is especially important, since the Linux driver also
>>> enables this option and uses the BBT table pages. Without setting this
>>> option, U-Boot will try to re-use these pages again (e.g. UBI).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
>>> Cc: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev at microchip.com>
>>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>> ---
>>> Eugen, I would advise you to double-check, if your AT91 based boards
>>> using NAND also have this BBT option enabled in Linux. If yes, its
>>> definitely necessary to enable it in U-Boot as well to match the same
>>> layout.
>>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Thank you for the patch.
>> I will look into it with help of Tudor and provide some feedback.
> 
> Do you have any updates on this?
> 
> Would it be possible to apply this patch for the upcoming release?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan
> 

Applied to u-boot-atmel/master

Will queue it before release in a PR. Have to check if more at91 boards 
need the same kind of patch.

Eugen


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