[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM DaVinci: Adding DM357 Support

[David Brownell]

On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
> Dave,
> 	We can add such support/enhancements later. The
> patch as such will work for sure.

OK, I can understand that.  This board seems to have
the most complex NAND config of the DaVinci EVMs.


> In our LSPs we can use 
> only one NAND at a time. We do not at this point of time
> have support even in the kernel where both NANDs can be
> used at the same time. Its only either of the 2.   

And for that matter, even the DaVinci GIT tree doesn't
yet support this board ... much less mainline Linux!

I believe the current NAND driver (in 2.6.30-rc) should
handle this fine, though.

- Dave


 
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b at pacbell.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:57 PM
> > To: Paulraj, Sandeep; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> > Cc: davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM DaVinci: Adding DM357 Support
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > So this initial U-Boot support only supports the smaller of
> > the two NAND chips, and access to the second one is only
> > after booting to the operating system?
> > 
> > I'd have liked to see the NAND driver updates needed to support
> > the chipselect of the second NAND chip, and use it with HW ECC.
> > 
> > - Dave
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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