have you JFS2440 patched to handle the Hynix HY27US08121A

[esky-sh]

Hi,

You can try this supervivi image from latest updates.

[ekilab]

thanks I tried it (I assume the idea was to flash it ti NAND
from supervivi first X then V then K then J failed in J phase on same sector.

I will try flashing it to the NOR as well since I still have some time the printerported XP machine here.

[esky-sh]

of course you need to burn the this supervivi image into nor-flash and then boot from nor-flash. you were stuck on this point that the BIOS resident in nor-flash can not support Hynix nand-flash.

[ekilab]

programmed again norflash (I had programmed the nor with ftp directory mini20090723/images/linux/supervivi-64M on saturday)
the vivi outpul looks like the image you attached to this rar archive, so I thought it is the same binary
i checked verifying the two binaries and H-Jtag verified them in 23sec AT 10KB/sec all 250.3K is the same
I also checked the mini20090723/images/linux/supervivi-64M and that too verified correctly.
I have only one Supervivi-64M image, so that is not the issue not at all.

still to be >100% sure I flashed the rarfiles supervivi-64 to NOR flash, and got no change in the behaviour of the board.
I tried from vivi menu the Format comand, and it failed too
I tried it two times, faiild, did x (x reported same bad block as before) command and then format, it passed
did again v k and y comands from menu
v and k passed
y started slowing down towards the end but finished without error
tried booting linux, crashed during decompressing kernel phase
did again using different kernel this time yaffs load crashed at 0x02a6c000/02564 again

now i tried following:
menu commands x f(did not complain) x v k y and fail again.

tried powering off, doing x and after 3 attempts the bad block disappeared, but I could nor upload vivi to nand but at third poweroff/power on cycle.
Ill do more tests tomorrow I need to sleep for a moment.

[esky-sh]

I know the problem you met now. it is something related with error in nand. instead of configuration of BIOS.
I suggest you install a wince image in nand or a raw 2440test program and check if they boot ok.

Is it an Out of Box issue or failure happend several days/week?

[ekilab]

it started on first day of use, and that was about 2 weeks ago.

[esky-sh]

ok. we will have a test as soon as it returned.

[ekilab]

ok. we will have a test as soon as it returned.

i have succeeded to get it allmost working now, it took seven (7 sic) format attempts to get it go trough the drill, and now there is something funny bout the flash partitions.

Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
S3C24XX NAND Driver, (c) 2004 Simtec Electronics
s3c2440-nand s3c2440-nand: Tacls=3, 29ns Twrph0=7 69ns, Twrph1=3 29ns
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0x76 (Hynix NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Scanning device for bad blocks
Creating 4 MTD partitions on "NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit":
0x000000000000-0x000000060000 : "supervivi"
0x000000060000-0x000000260000 : "Kernel"
0x000000260000-0x000040260000 : "root"
mtd: partition "root" extends beyond the end of device "NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit" -- size truncated to 0x3da0000
0x000000000000-0x000040000000 : "nand"
mtd: partition "nand" extends beyond the end of device "NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit" -- size truncated to 0x4000000

[Harborseal]

Ekilab, why use the command line in vivi?

I simply start in NOR and use H-JTAG/H-Flasher to load the new supervivi, then power off, swithc to NAND, power on. (Directions for H-JTAG on downloads page at andahammer.com)

x to partition (generate new bad block table), v to load supervivi, k to load kernel, y to load Qtopia. Everything works great. The new kernel for 7" is vastly improved for touch screen.