Accessing the desired device
In order to test a particular device, that device must not be in use by the rest of the system. There are two ways to make that happen:
Prevent other drivers from binding to the device. This may involve building the system with modified binding rules for the driver that normally binds to the desired device, or passing kernel command line arguments to disable that driver.
Unbind devices that are bound to the desired device.
For example, in order to use a test tool against the core nand driver, nandpart devices may be removed like so:
$ unbind /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand/fvm
Note that all other devices created by nandpart must also be removed. Use
driver dump to inspect the device tree.
Protocol testing
nand-test is an integration test that performs basic tests of nand protocol
drivers.
For example, this command will test an existing ram-nand device making sure the test does not modify anything outside blocks [100, 109]:
$ /boot/test/sys/nand-test --device /dev/sys/platform/00:00:2e/nand-ctl/ram-nand-0 --first-block 100 --num-blocks 10
Correctness testing
nand-util is a troubleshooting tool that can perform a simple read-reliability
test.
$ nand-util --device /dev/sys/platform/00:00:2e/nand-ctl/ram-nand-0 --check
Inspection / manipulation
$ nand-util --device /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand --info
$ nand-util --device /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand/fvm --read --block 1 --page 2
Grab an image
nand-util can also be used to grab an image of the nand contents:
$ unbind /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand/fvm/ftl/block
$ unbind /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand/fvm/ftl
$ nand-util --device /dev/sys/platform/raw_nand/aml-raw_nand/nand/fvm --save --file /tmp/image
Transfer the image file to the host:
$ out/default/host-tools/netcp :/tmp/image /tmp/saved_image_file
Replay
A saved nand image can be loaded on top of a ram-nand device using nand-loader.
First, transfer the image to a device running Zircon. For example, on the host:
echo /nand.dmp=/tmp/saved_image_file > /tmp/manifest.txt
out/default/host-tools/minfs /tmp/image.dsk create --manifest /tmp/manifest.txt
fx set bringup.x64
fx build
fx qemu -k -- -hda /tmp/image.dsk
Then, inside zircon:
$ mkdir data/a
$ mount /dev/class/block/000 data/a
$ nand-loader data/a/nand.dmp