[PATCH] tools: mxsboot: pre-fill buffer with 0xff, not 0

Alessandro Rubini rubini at gnudd.com
Sun Dec 3 18:08:26 CET 2023


The tool works for me, with imx28 and NAND memory, but the resulting
blocks are reported as bad, both by u-boot and the kernel.

This makes it impossible to erase from Linux (for an upgrade without
console access, for example -- u-boot can "nand scrub" but linux can't).

pre-filling with 0xff creates a proper boot loader image, but no
bad-block marker is there when written to flash.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini at gnudd.com>
---
 tools/mxsboot.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/mxsboot.c b/tools/mxsboot.c
index 04d86f87a8..8f4018aa56 100644
--- a/tools/mxsboot.c
+++ b/tools/mxsboot.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ static int mx28_create_nand_image(int infd, int outfd)
 		goto err0;
 	}
 
-	memset(buf, 0, size);
+	memset(buf, 0xff, size);
 
 	fcb = mx28_nand_get_fcb(MAX_BOOTSTREAM_SIZE);
 	if (!fcb) {
-- 
2.30.2


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