Hi Gary,
> It's been a long time since we had this issue so I'm a bit fuzzy on the
> details. I do know that we used the "mkyaffs" utility to program the flash
> on the target using an image prepared by the "mkyaffsimage" on the host.
Interesting we've never used the mkyaffs utility to program the nand flash.
Hopefully J. Chitte can comment if he also uses the mkyaffs utility...
Regards,
Eddie
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Eddie Dawydiuk <>wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > > I'm not sure what you want me to provide. The board will still boot but I
> > only have console and it keeps spewing "yaffs tragedy" to that.
> >
> > Basically what I'm asking for is, if you can tell me how to reproduce the
> > problems you are reporting. That is if I take a stock board, what needs to
> > be
> > done to make large amounts of blocks to be marked bad as you've reported.
> > As I
> > mentioned earlier the kernel hasn't changed in several years, and we've
> > done
> > quite a bit of testing on the Yaffs code base we are shipping and we have
> > been
> > unable to reproduce any failures. If our tests are missing a problem, we
> > would
> > be interested to know what needs to be done to cause the problem to show
> > up.
> >
> > If you'd like you can contact me off list and I will provide you with an
> > RMA so
> > your board can be returned to be restored to the factory default settings
> > with a
> > new Nand flash chip.
> >
> > > Since I don't really understand what conditions produce the bad block
> > markage I can only guess like you. I can't provide do steps 1,2,3
> > > "happens every time" bug report. Sorry.
> >
> > I'll pass your report along to my manager, although I can tell you from
> > past
> > experience he will be much more likely to assign an engineer to look into
> > your
> > bug report if you can provide information on how to recreate the bug you
> > are
> > reporting.
> >
> > A few more questions. How many boards have seen this problem on? Have you
> > seen
> > this problem on any boards that have never run a non TS kernel(I believe
> > you
> > mentioned running a 2.6 kernel at one point)?
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > ________________________________________________________________
> > Eddie Dawydiuk, Technologic Systems | voice: (480) 837-5200
> > 16525 East Laser Drive | fax: (480) 837-5300
> > Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 | web: www.embeddedARM.com
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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