I think that was meant for the list, cc'ing it. On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:48:59PM -0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Paul Fertser wrote: > > I think they're ok, as GTA02 is truly unbrickable and NOR u-boot has > > "nand scrub" along with "nand createbbt" commands. So, they > > repartitioned and i think are now fine. At least they told so on IRC. > > The problem with "nand scrub" is that it also "fixes" the > factory-bad blocks and destroys all evidence that we ever knew > about them. > > Combine this with the fragile nature of the dynamic partitions, > and this is just another problem in the making ...
But "nand createbbt" should reasonably test all the blocks and mark all the bad ones appropriatly, i hope. Anyway, for an unbrickable device some method to deal with improper nandwrite usage should exist, i guess. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:[email protected]
