diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index b34caaa6cd8a..de7a4f1db9d6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ IPL_CUST at `0x10000`, the uImage at `0x20000`.
 
 The layout and environment of openipc-hisilicon (`include/configs/openipc-common.h`,
 `openipc/nand_config`): `768k(boot),256k(env),-(ubi)`, the environment at
-`0xC0000` (128 KiB in the 256 KiB range, so one bad block there leaves the
-other; openipc-hisilicon's is 256 KiB in 256), one UBI device from `0x100000` whose UBIFS
+`0xC0000` (256 KiB, range 256 KiB, as openipc-hisilicon's and the
+firmware's `fw_env.config`), one UBI device from `0x100000` whose UBIFS
 `rootfs` volume holds the kernel as `/boot/fitImage` or `/boot/uImage`, and
 `rootfs_data` on the rest; `root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs ubi.mtd=2,2048`.
 `common/openipc.c` is the common one (openipc-ingenic's, `OPENIPC_SPI_NAND`
diff --git a/include/configs/openipc-common.h b/include/configs/openipc-common.h
index 56e4e59951ab..29a6d61192b8 100644
--- a/include/configs/openipc-common.h
+++ b/include/configs/openipc-common.h
@@ -201,9 +201,8 @@
 #define OPENIPC_NAND_MTDPARTS "768k(boot),256k(env),-(ubi)"
 
 /* Environment lives in the NAND 'env' partition: CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET 0xc0000,
- * CONFIG_ENV_RANGE 0x40000 as on openipc-hisilicon, CONFIG_ENV_SIZE 0x20000
- * so that a bad block in the partition leaves room for it
- * (openipc/nand_config). */
+ * CONFIG_ENV_SIZE and CONFIG_ENV_RANGE 0x40000 (openipc/nand_config), as
+ * on openipc-hisilicon. */
 
 #define CONFIG_BOOTARGS OPENIPC_MEMARGS_HEAD "console=ttyS0,115200 panic=20 init=/init root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs ubi.mtd=2,2048 mtdparts=\\${mtdparts}" OPENIPC_MEMARGS_TAIL " \\${extras}"
 
diff --git a/openipc/nand_config b/openipc/nand_config
index a1913ff486ae..70ce2f5b1829 100644
--- a/openipc/nand_config
+++ b/openipc/nand_config
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS=y
 # CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE is not set
 CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND=y
 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET=0xc0000
-# 128 KiB in the 256 KiB partition: one bad block there leaves the other
-CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=0x20000
+CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=0x40000
 CONFIG_ENV_RANGE=0x40000
 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y
 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS=y