openwrtv4/package/boot/kobs-ng/patches/003-raw-mode.patch
Tim Harvey a4b86b292a boot: kobs-ng: update kobs-ng for newer kernels
This allows kobs-ng to flash the SPL successfully on the 4.4 kernel used by
the Gateworks IMX boards supporting NAND. The previous version of kobs-ng
worked with the 3.14 kernel but will brick a board making its SPL unbootable
for the 4.4 kernel.

See http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/ventana/bootloader#nandspl for instructions
on updating the SPL from Linux.

Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
2016-09-04 13:36:09 +02:00

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The downstream Freescale vendor kernel has a patch that allows determining
if raw NAND flash mode is provided via a debugfs file. This is not present
in upstream kernels, but the raw access support was added in the 3.19
kernel, so we will check the kernel version if we can't find the file.
--- a/src/mtd.c
+++ b/src/mtd.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include "mtd.h"
#include "rand.h"
@@ -808,15 +809,27 @@ struct mtd_data *mtd_open(const struct m
md->cfg = *cfg;
/* check if use new raw access mode */
+ /* by looking for debugfs from fsl patch */
+ md->raw_mode_flag = 0;
fp = fopen("/sys/kernel/debug/gpmi-nand/raw_mode", "r");
if (!fp) {
- md->raw_mode_flag = 0;
- vp(md, "mtd: use legacy raw access mode\n");
+ /* fallback to kernel version: raw access added in 3.19 */
+ struct utsname uts;
+ if (!uname(&uts)) {
+ int major = 0, minor = 0;
+ sscanf(uts.release, "%d.%d", &major, &minor);
+ vp(md, "mtd: Linux %d.%d\n", major, minor);
+ if ((major << 8 | minor) > (3 << 8 | 18))
+ md->raw_mode_flag = 1;
+ }
} else {
fclose(fp);
md->raw_mode_flag = 1;
- vp(md, "mtd: use new bch layout raw access mode\n");
}
+ if (md->raw_mode_flag)
+ vp(md, "mtd: use new bch layout raw access mode\n");
+ else
+ vp(md, "mtd: use legacy raw access mode\n");
if (plat_config_data->m_u32UseMultiBootArea) {