Re: [U-Boot] Memory testing of flash

2012-02-01 Thread vaibhav kothari
Thnx for the previous post You said that it is not fruitful idea to test flash post test at every boot up as it is reduces the life cycle of flash??is there any mechanism to prevent that? and also i am using spi serial w25x32 flash and i dont know if it is CFI complaint or not but i know the boar

Re: [U-Boot] Memory testing of flash

2012-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Vaibhav Kothari, please keep the ML on Cc: In message you wrote: > > Thank you very muchyour answer is really very helpful.. > > > Though if i wanted to test flash all sectors but not one which contains > uboot code ...is it possible to do so??how? Sure. Try for example: =

Re: [U-Boot] Memory testing of flash

2012-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear vk, In message you wrote: > Is it safer to test flash during bootup...what if power gets off half a way > while writing data on address at which uboot source code is located?Then uboot > will never get started?? Write testing of flash devices on a regular base (like as part of the POST at e