Hi Stefan, I totally agree with your suggestion. Let's move the NAND update into a separate branch for testing.
The missing or faulty NAND features are an absolute no-go because we use NAND on many of our boards. But we definitely should not lose track of the NAND updates. Especially William's YAFFS support is a cool outstanding feature I would love to see in the main repo sooner or later. Matthias On Tuesday 15 January 2008 09:49, Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi All, > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Stefan Roese wrote: > > I just updated the master branch of the NAND custodian repository with the > > patches from William Juul: > > > > http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot/u-boot-nand-flash.git;a=shor > >tlog;h=master > > > > This patchset brings the U-Boot NAND subsystem in sync again with the Linux > > 2.6.22.1 NAND code. Thanks go to William Juul and his colleagues for the > > hard > > As it seems the current status of the new NAND subsystem provided by William > Juul and his colleges, has still some problems. As far as I see it right now > here a list (please let me know if I missed something): > > - DOC support broken and removed for now > - needs to be ported and tested on HW with DOC > - 'nand read.jffs2/.i' not implemented at all > - 'nand write.jffs2/.i' not implemented correctly > - Doesn't skip bad blocks > - From my quick first look, it doesn't write the OOB correctly > - Extensive testing on other platforms needed > > So with all these flaws, it doesn't make sense from my point of view, to pull > these changes into the official U-Boot repository in this merge window. I > think we should delay this merge for 1 or 2 U-Boot versions, until the > problems mentioned above are resolved. > > Any thoughts/comments on this? > > If we agree on this merge delay, then I suggest that I move this mtd update > into a different branch (it's currently in the master branch :-() of the > u-boot-nand-flash repository and base the master branch on the master branch > of Wolfgang's official repository. This way updates and fixes to the "old" > NAND subsystem can be handled better. > > Again, any comments? > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > Stefan > > ===================================================================== > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===================================================================== > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Fuchs SD4 esd electronic system design gmbh Vahrenwalder Str. 207 - 30165 Hannover - GERMANY Telefon: 0511-37298-0 - Fax: 0511-37298-68 Bitte besuchen Sie uns im Internet unter http://www.esd.eu Quality Products - Made in Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführer: Klaus Detering, Dr. Werner Schulze Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 51373 - VAT-ID DE 115672832 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
