On Wednesday 17 March 2010 12:10:52 pm Jon Povey wrote:

[...]

> Çaglar AKYÜZ wrote:
> > My experience was latest u-boot was consistent with latest kernels
> > but ubl(and rbl) was using a different layout thus no ubl updates
> > from kernel or u-boot which is not good.
> 
> No that is not good.. We would really like to be able to write the ubl from
>  linux. I wonder if we can write raw and calculate the ECC ourselves in
>  software for the RBL a.k.a. "wrong" style.
> 
> If u-boot was incompatible with ubl, did you use u-boot to write itself? I
>  am wondering how ubl read u-boot if u-boot was written with different
>  layout.
> 

TI flash programming utility writes ubl and u-boot. Since ubl reads u-boot 
into nand no problem occurs there.

> > When transiting from an
> > older u-boot(or kernel) to a newer one nand bbt should be erased or
> > new u-boot will mark all pages bad.
> 
> Did you find it was just the bbt format that had changed, or the ECC layout
>  inside each page?
> 

I guess ECC was different because ubl was not reading anything written by u-
boot(or kernel). That was where I lost track of all. Infix ECC, different 
layouts supported by newer chips, etc.

Regards,
Caglar

> >> bye! ( happy to know that NAND with git will continue to be a pain )
> >
> >  A little, not that much.
> 
> I hope not too much..
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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