On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Stefan Roese wrote: I totally agree. All those problems should be addressed first and all the functionality must be restored before propagating it into the main branch.
> 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=s > hor >> 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] > ===================================================================== > --- ****************************************************************** * [EMAIL PROTECTED] KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * ****************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
