2009-11-20 11:35:08 NAND Flash

Chris Brissette (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82600

I am just putting this out there because I am having a horrible problem findinf NAND flash for my BF-537 Stamp board. I have been using ST NAND08GW3B2CN6E 8Mbit . But it's been obsoleted, and sourcing is impossible. I tried a micron part MT29F8G08AAAWP:A that Avnet sourced as an alternative. Make a long story short.. Doesn't work to well, even with newest U-Boot. (Had to patch MTD to even try)

My question is, does anywone know of a 1Gbyte or bigger NAND that is supported with the 2009R1 Distro? I would like to have some tested part numbers together so I am not blindly shooting.

I know that there should be some Samsung/Intel/Hynix chips that should work.

I am supposed to have a release this January.. It's not looking so good, any help would be great.

Thanks

Chris

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2009-11-20 12:48:47 NAND Flash

Ron Weiland (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82601 We're using a MT29F8G08AAD just fine on our BF533-based board. Only

problem was when going from the "C" (which as obsoleted) to the "D", I

had to add a reset command into the u-boot for the chip to get

recognized.

Ron Weiland

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2009-11-20 14:13:12 Re: NAND Flash

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82602

if you posted the change you had to make, we can look at getting it integrated ...

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2009-11-20 20:55:17 Re: NAND Flash

Ron Weiland (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82607 Sorry, Mike. I thought I only made the change to 2008 and that it was

already in 2009. It isn't. Here is the patch:

--- nand_base.c 2009-04-09 01:32:44.000000000 -0700

+++

/home/rweiland/code/clx/2009_release/uboot/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c

2009-11-20 17:39:54.000000000 -0800

@@ -2365,6 +2365,8 @@

/* Select the device */

chip->select_chip(mtd, 0);

+ chip->cmdfunc( mtd, NAND_CMD_RESET, -1, -1 );

/* Send the command for reading device ID */

chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READID, 0x00, -1);

Hope that helps.

Ron

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2009-11-29 16:45:35 Re: NAND Flash

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82872

which version of u-boot did you write this against originally ? did you verify it was still needed in the latest, or you just saw that there was no reset command there still ?

the mtd and nand stack is significantly different between 2008R1.5 (based on u-boot 1.1.6) and 2009R1 (based on u-boot 2008.10). there's easily 2 years+ of changes in the upstreram u-boot code base here.

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2009-11-30 15:44:41 Re: NAND Flash

Ron Weiland (UNITED STATES)

Message: 82898 Hi Mike, hope you had a good Thanksgiving!

I originally wrote the change for u-boot 1.1.5 from ASTFIN. The board

would not recognize the flash without the change. I don't remember if I

tested 2009R1-rc3 without the change, but I don't think I would have

made the change without testing first. Since I have hardware with both

the "C" rev NAND and the "D" rev, I will test the 2009R1-rc3 with and

without the change and get back to you.

Ron

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