Hi, Am 03.04.2015 um 22:42 schrieb Daniel Glöckner <daniel...@gmx.net>:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:45:43PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> But also a lot of improvement on ubi. We can use ubi for the 2 >>> nand chips, and use ubifs on that. >> >> Yes, and it works fine and stable on ARM (we have it on GTA04 since 3.12 >> kernels). > > IIRC the original kernel didn't use any kind of ECC. This should > definitely be fixed to improve NAND flash reliability on that device. > >> AFAIK reflashing a bootloader needs JTAG access to the Flash memory. > > Why do you need JTAG to replace a bootloader stored in NAND flash? > You shouldn't need JTAG unless you screw it up. Because you can screw it up… And if you can’t boot into Linux any more, you can’t restore it to some working version. I have at least one Letux400 where this happened. So the best is not to touch the boot loader. But a kernel running havoc on /dev/mtd could damage the boot loader as well. > >> Yes, the list appears to work (and I have forwarded my responses to both) >> but there, the archive is also dead. > > As I don't delete eMails, I have everything since August 2009. > All 298 messages. Anyone want a copy? I think it is good enough to know. > > The last real discussion on that list was in September 2012. > After that there was only one unanswered mail in February 2013 > before the list was added to this discussion. > > There is also jz47xx-ker...@lists.en.qi-hardware.com which saw less > than 10 threads since its inception: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/jz47xx-kernel I think they simply used their other lists - but focussed on the jz4740 SoC which is in the qi Ben Nanonote (and kernel.org). So it does not help much. BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
