From c9494866df835bcee68e17339aec1090faa704da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Gardiner Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:35:07 -0400 Subject: cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Add another nand write. variant, trimffs. This command will request of nand_write_skip_bad() that all trailing all-0xff pages will be dropped from eraseblocks when they are written to flash as-per the reccommended behaviour of the UBI FAQ [1]. The function that implements this timming is the drop_ffs() function by Artem Bityutskiy, ported from the mtd-utils tree. [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner CC: Artem Bityutskiy CC: Detlev Zundel Acked-by: Scott Wood Signed-off-by: Scott Wood --- doc/README.nand | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/README.nand b/doc/README.nand index 8eedb6c4d7..751b693843 100644 --- a/doc/README.nand +++ b/doc/README.nand @@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ Commands: should work well, but loading an image copied from another flash is going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks. + nand write.trimffs addr ofs|partition size + Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS macro. This command will write to + the NAND flash in a manner identical to the 'nand write' command + described above -- with the additional check that all pages at the end + of eraseblocks which contain only 0xff data will not be written to the + NAND flash. This behaviour is required when flashing UBI images + containing UBIFS volumes as per the UBI FAQ[1]. + + [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo + nand write.oob addr ofs|partition size Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes -- cgit v1.2.3