[U-Boot] [PATCH] ADS5121 NAND driver

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear John Rigby,

In message <1225313050-31063-1-git-send-email-jrigby at freescale.com> you wrote:
> ADS5121 rev4 / MPC5121e rev2 only
> 
> Only tested with:
>     2K page size
>     8 bit device width
> 
> This controller treats 2K pages as 4 512 byte pages
> and the hw ecc is over the combined 512 byte main
> area and the first 7 bytes of the spare area.
> 
> The hw ecc is stored in the last 9 bytes of the
> spare area.
> 
> This all means the the spare area can not be written
> separately from the main.  This means unmodified JFFS2
> will not work.

Hm... then what exactly is this good for? If we cannot  use  it  with
the normal Linux code I see little use cases for such a driver?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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