[U-Boot] reading ubi from a NAND for programming to other devices
Greetings,
I'm looking to understand what methods are available for reading/writing ubi/ubifs from an existing NAND flash in order to duplicate the contents onto another device in U-Boot, Linux, and with JTAG flashing for production.
Typically I create ubi's using ubinize then I can use U-Boot 'nand erase' and 'nand write' or JTAG to write the ubi without issues. However if I use U-Boot 'nand read' to read a ubi then write it back using the same method I get 'ubi0 warning: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error)' and 'ubi0 error: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error)' messages from Linux when its mounted. I find I run into the same problem when JTAG programming ubi's: no issues when using a ubi created via ubinize but when flashing one that came from a U-Boot 'nand read' I see ubi errors when mounting it.
Some testing shows me that I can't use U-Boot nand read/erase/write once U-Boot has 'attached' the UBI (via the U-Boot 'ubi part' command) which scans and re-sizes the volume.
If I on the other hand take a ubi from U-Boot 'nand read' and use Linux ubiformat to flash that onto a new device I get no ubi warnings/errors when its mounted. My understanding is that ubiformat is simply preserving erase counters but there must be something else its doing.
What's going on here and what can I do in U-Boot/JTAG to properly write ubi that's been read from an existing system? I'm hoping there is a method that doesn't require iterating over the individual volumes within the ubi.
Best Regards,
Tim
Hi Tim,
Greetings,
I'm looking to understand what methods are available for reading/writing ubi/ubifs from an existing NAND flash in order to duplicate the contents onto another device in U-Boot, Linux, and with JTAG flashing for production.
You may want to check if nanddump / nandwrite will work for you (but those are Linux utils, not available in u-boot).
http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/tree/HEAD:/nand-utils
Typically I create ubi's using ubinize then I can use U-Boot 'nand erase' and 'nand write' or JTAG to write the ubi without issues. However if I use U-Boot 'nand read' to read a ubi then write it back using the same method I get 'ubi0 warning: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error)' and 'ubi0 error: ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error)' messages from Linux when its mounted. I find I run into the same problem when JTAG programming ubi's: no issues when using a ubi created via ubinize but when flashing one that came from a U-Boot 'nand read' I see ubi errors when mounting it.
Some testing shows me that I can't use U-Boot nand read/erase/write once U-Boot has 'attached' the UBI (via the U-Boot 'ubi part' command) which scans and re-sizes the volume.
If I on the other hand take a ubi from U-Boot 'nand read' and use Linux ubiformat to flash that onto a new device I get no ubi warnings/errors when its mounted. My understanding is that ubiformat is simply preserving erase counters but there must be something else its doing.
What's going on here and what can I do in U-Boot/JTAG to properly write ubi that's been read from an existing system? I'm hoping there is a method that doesn't require iterating over the individual volumes within the ubi.
Best Regards,
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Lukasz Majewski
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