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

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Thu Sep 12 09:00:22 UTC 2019


Hi Eugen,

On 12.09.19 08:07, Eugen.Hristev at microchip.com 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

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

As mentioned before, I'm pretty sure that most (all) at91 boards with
NAND need this patch.

Thanks,
Stefan


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