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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Cc: "fabio.estevam@freescale.com" <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>,
	"u-boot@lists.denx.de" <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"scottwood@freescale.com" <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gpmi-nand driver and jffs2 support
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:12:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201309151612.24167.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522755DC.4000301@digi.com>

Dear Hector Palacios,

> Dear Marek,
> 
> On 09/04/2013 04:38 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Huang Shijie,
> > 
> >> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> Dear Huang Shijie,
> >>> How come hector was then able to write his JFFS2 partition ?
> >> 
> >> If he uses the gpmi, he should not write the JFFS2, since the gpmi
> >> does not support the jffs2. He will get the failure in the end.
> > 
> > Hector, can you comment on this?
> 
> I don't think I'm following these comments. The facts are:
> 1) A JFFS2 filesystem image written with nandwrite (mtd-utils v1.5.0)
> 	a) does not mount on kernel v3.10
> 	b) mounts OK on linux-next kernel (v3.12) with the patchset [1] from 
Huang
> 	(actually I didn't use linux-next but instead a v3.10 where I merged all
> the commits done to MTD in linux-next, which are a lot).
> 
> 2) A JFFS2 filesystem image written with U-Boot v2013.01
> 	a) mounts OK on old FSL kernel 2.6.35
> 	b) does not mount on kernel v3.10 (neither on v3.8, I believe).
> 	c) does not mount on linux-next with the patchset [1]
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-August/048360.html
> 
> Marek, could you please confirm 2b on your side, just in case I'm doing
> anything wrong in my custom U-Boot?

Sorry for the late reply. I cannot test it, since I don't have such a setup.

I still believe it'd be worth figuring out what the heck is going on in here. 
There is obviously a bug which breaks compatibility and that must not happen.

[...]

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] gpmi-nand driver and jffs2 support
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:12:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201309151612.24167.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522755DC.4000301@digi.com>

Dear Hector Palacios,

> Dear Marek,
> 
> On 09/04/2013 04:38 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Huang Shijie,
> > 
> >> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> Dear Huang Shijie,
> >>> How come hector was then able to write his JFFS2 partition ?
> >> 
> >> If he uses the gpmi, he should not write the JFFS2, since the gpmi
> >> does not support the jffs2. He will get the failure in the end.
> > 
> > Hector, can you comment on this?
> 
> I don't think I'm following these comments. The facts are:
> 1) A JFFS2 filesystem image written with nandwrite (mtd-utils v1.5.0)
> 	a) does not mount on kernel v3.10
> 	b) mounts OK on linux-next kernel (v3.12) with the patchset [1] from 
Huang
> 	(actually I didn't use linux-next but instead a v3.10 where I merged all
> the commits done to MTD in linux-next, which are a lot).
> 
> 2) A JFFS2 filesystem image written with U-Boot v2013.01
> 	a) mounts OK on old FSL kernel 2.6.35
> 	b) does not mount on kernel v3.10 (neither on v3.8, I believe).
> 	c) does not mount on linux-next with the patchset [1]
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-August/048360.html
> 
> Marek, could you please confirm 2b on your side, just in case I'm doing
> anything wrong in my custom U-Boot?

Sorry for the late reply. I cannot test it, since I don't have such a setup.

I still believe it'd be worth figuring out what the heck is going on in here. 
There is obviously a bug which breaks compatibility and that must not happen.

[...]

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-15 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-30  9:15 gpmi-nand driver and jffs2 support Hector Palacios
2013-08-30  9:55 ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-30 14:24   ` Hector Palacios
2013-08-31  2:53     ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-30 15:23       ` Hector Palacios
2013-08-31  3:34         ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-30 16:31           ` Hector Palacios
2013-08-30 16:37             ` Fabio Estevam
2013-08-30 16:41               ` Hector Palacios
2013-08-31 13:37                 ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-02  8:12                   ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-02  8:24                     ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-02  8:42                       ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-02  8:50                         ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-02 10:10                           ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-02 10:10                             ` [U-Boot] " Hector Palacios
2013-09-02 10:23                             ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-02 10:23                               ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-02 11:32                               ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-02 11:32                                 ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-03  2:06                                 ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-03  2:06                                   ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-03 11:53                                   ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-03 11:53                                     ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-04  2:26                                     ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-04  2:26                                       ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-04 14:00                                       ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-04 14:00                                         ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-05  2:41                                         ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-05  2:41                                           ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-04 14:38                                           ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-04 14:38                                             ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-04 15:46                                             ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-04 15:46                                               ` [U-Boot] " Hector Palacios
2013-09-05  6:01                                               ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-05  6:01                                                 ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-15 14:18                                                 ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-15 14:18                                                   ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-16  2:35                                                   ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-16  2:35                                                     ` [U-Boot] " Huang Shijie
2013-09-19 16:07                                                     ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-19 16:07                                                       ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-19 16:13                                                       ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-19 16:13                                                         ` [U-Boot] " Hector Palacios
2013-09-19 16:14                                                       ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-19 16:14                                                         ` [U-Boot] " Hector Palacios
2013-09-19 16:16                                                         ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-19 16:16                                                           ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-19 17:20                                                         ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-19 17:20                                                           ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2013-09-15 14:12                                               ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2013-09-15 14:12                                                 ` Marek Vasut
2013-08-31 17:51                 ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-24  9:50 ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-24 10:46   ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-24 12:53     ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-25  9:08       ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-29 22:52         ` Marek Vasut

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