[U-Boot] U-Boot and CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Apr 27 00:57:22 CEST 2009


On 00:51 Mon 27 Apr     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> 
> In message <20090426224036.GL32215 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
> > On 11:11 Sun 26 Apr     , David Brownell wrote:
> > > I was looking at the DaVinci NAND support in current U-Boot
> > > code (i.e. 2009.03 plus patches merged since that release),
> > > and am puzzled by the above-named config option.
> > > 
> > > Before I submit a patch to remove it from U-Boot GIT (nothing
> > > there enables it, and it will nastify 4-bit support), I thought
> > > I'd see if anyone knows exactly what software it was trying to
> > > emulate.  Differences from the current NAND driver in GIT:
> > maybe add it in the feature-removal-schedule.txt
> > will let people time to explain why they need it
> 
> Hm... I don't think this is needed.
> 
> Since there are no users of this code in U-Boot, we can as well
> remove it without warning.
no necessarelly the boards Maintainer choose to use the other ECC but part
of the U-Boot user may need it.
So add it in the removal schedule make sense. We can evenif plan it for the next
Release.

Best Regards,
J.


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