RE: bad block table erased by u-boot's ubi part command

[Yannick Lanz <yannick.lanz@xxxxxxxx>]

> > 
> > If a mount the UBI partition in U-Boot, then the bad block table is 
> > never found in the kernel and always recreated. The other strange 
> > point is that U-Boot doesn't find the 4 bad block found by the kernel.
> > 
> > If I reboot without mounting the UBI partition in U-Boot, then the bad 
> > block table is directly discovered by the kernel following its creation on latest boot.
> > It seems that U-Boot is destroying the bad block table.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what's happening ?
>
> Probably because u-boot does not have on-flash-bbt enabled, so it's assuming the blocks reserved by Linux for the bad block table are free, and when UBI is attached to the last partition it picks > the last 4 blocks and writes its metadata on it.

Exactly, thank you for the support. I activated the on-flash-bbt in my u-boot device tree but I was using the binary without embedded device tree...
It's now working well.

Yannick 

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