Hi, Dmitriy, thanks for including me in the loop.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:51:23 +0400 "Dmitriy B." <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-08-04 1:43 GMT+04:00 Arnd Gronenberg <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > > > > Question: Does it make sense to fix sunxi_nand for sunxi-linux 3.4? > > > If you want to run android, then yes. > > > How is this code implemented in the current mainline linux? > > > It is still in development, here you can check latest branch > https://github.com/bbrezillon/linux-sunxi/commits/sunxi-nand-pre-v4-fixed > > Be prepared to see bugs, like ubifs dying after a reboot and badblocks > appearing out of nowhere (false positive ones, of course). The bad block issue seems to be fixed, but I'm still unable to mount a ubifs file system after a reboot: http://code.bulix.org/4a6696-86670 > Also OOB > structure is completely incompatible with old sunxi_nand OOB and you > will need to #flash_erase /dev/mtdX 0 0 -N at least once with a > special kernel patch (not included in the branch above), otherwise, > new mtd driver will detect all blocks marked as bad. I'm adding Boris > to CC, talk to him if you want to discuss/test mainline driver. I > think it is matter of couple more testing iterations to get it finally > working. Yes, as Dmitriy said, any help in testing/debugging this driver is welcome. Best Regards, Boris -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
