Hi Gupta, On 03/01/2014 13:59, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Basically, "ubiformat" is the "correct" UBI-aware flasher, while > u-boot's "nand write" seems to be a dumb flasher. It is, it is *not* recommended for UBI volume without "ubinizing" your image. > I guess you have 2 > options: > > 1. Teach u-boot's "nand write" to skip empty pages, or may be implement > a separate "clever" flashing command. You can also add (my preferred way) UBI support to your U-Boot, if it does not yet have. Then you will have "ubi part" (corresponds to ubiattach in Artem's MTD utilities), "ubi createvol" and "ubi writevol" (respectively, ubiupdatevol and ubimkvol). If you use dumb nand utilities, you have to erase the flash first with "nand erase", and this will lose the erase counters. Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
