On Wednesday 14 March 2012 17:00:58 Bud Miljkovic wrote: > Charles > > That is interesting. Any clue how to configure the start and end blocks > manually?
Yes I do since I wrote yaffs :-). Set the statrt_block and end_block (might be startBlock and endBlock) values as needed BEFORE the mount/init happens. In a "normal" situation with mtd partitioning these are set to 0 and n-blocks-in-partition -1, but they can be set manually too. -- Charles > > Bud > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles Manning [mailto:mannin...@actrix.gen.nz] > > Sent: Monday, 12 March 2012 8:20 a.m. > > To: Bud Miljkovic > > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Enabling nand createbbt command > > > > Bud > > > > Yaffs can work without mtdpart. To do that you just need to configure > > the > > start and end blocks manually instead of using the partition info to > > do > > > this. > > > > On Friday 09 March 2012 13:58:48 Bud Miljkovic wrote: > > > Thank you Scott and Fabio, > > > > > > You help is much appreciated. > > > > > > I will try to add the nand support for mx53 mainline. > > > > > > However, what I am trying to do is to build a u-boot that supports > > > > NAND > > > > > and have YAFFS2 as well and at moment I use the mx53_ard board since > > > this is very close to what my custom board will be. I was able to > > > > build > > > > > such a version, using Freescale u-boot sources, which included nand > > > subsystem, and yaffs commands. Then I needed to create partitions > > in > > > > the nand and this is where i "discovered" I needed the support of > > > mtdparts command. > > > > > > So I, guess, I need to configure the u-boot for mtdparts support. > > > > This > > > > > is where I am at. > > > > > > -Bud > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Scott Wood > > > > Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 12:04 p.m. > > > > To: Bud Miljkovic > > > > Cc: Fabio Estevam; > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Enabling nand createbbt command > > > > > > > > I do expect mainline is better maintained and supported, except > > for > > > > > missing particular features/hardware support that nobody ever > > > > bothered > > > > > > to submit to mainline -- which in this case appears to be hardware > > > > that you care about, so unless you're prepared to do a fair bit of > > > > work to add support to mainline, I'd try again to find a support > > > > channel for your Freescale-provided U-Boot. Or maybe we could > > help > > > > > you figure out what it is you want to do, instead of scrubbing, if > > > > the > > > > > > answer doesn't depend on details of a non-standard U-Boot. > > > > > > > > Oh, and if you're curious about my freescale.com e-mail address, I > > > > work in a different part of the company and don't have i.MX > > > > knowledge > > > > > > or contacts. > > > > > > > > -Scott > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > U-Boot mailing list > > > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > > > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot