[U-Boot] [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH RFC] ARM: Davinci: NAND fix for large page ECC and linux compatibility

Hugo Villeneuve hugo.villeneuve at lyrtech.com
Sat Aug 30 23:18:48 CEST 2008


> > It depends if you put backwards compatibility over reliability
> > though.
> 
> In the long term, I value the latter -- compatibility should be possible,
> but it shouldn't cause new users to continue to generate bad ECC indefinetly
> (both causing them reliability problems and expanding the number of people
> that would be affected if the default were to change down the road).

I spoke to Bernard and he told me he moved to other things and would
probably not have the time to modify his patch based on the comments he
got and to rebase it against the latest U-Boot git repository.

So that is why I send a patch based on Bernard's original work.

Hugo V.



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