[U-Boot] [patch u-boot-git 2/2] davinci_nand: cleanup II (CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC )

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 13:19 Tue 28 Apr     , David Brownell wrote:
> From: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Remove CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC option.  It's not just nasty;
> it's also unused by any current boards, and doesn't even match the
> main U-Boot distributions from TI (which use soft ECC, or 4-bit ECC
> on newer chips that support it).
> 
> DaVinci GIT kernels since 2.6.24, and mainline Linux since 2.6.30,
> match non-BROKEN code paths for 1-bit HW ECC.  The BROKEN code paths
> do seem to partially match what MontaVista/TI kernels (4.0/2.6.10,
> and 5.0/2.6.18) do ... but only for small pages.  Large page support
> is really broken (and it's unclear just what software it was trying
> to match!), and the ECC layout was making three more bytes available
> for use by filesystem (or whatever) code.
> 
> Since this option itself seems broken, remove it.  Add a comment
> about the MV/TI compat issue, and the most straightforward way to
> address it (should someone really need to solve it).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
Noone seems to worry about it

maybe cc the linux davinci ML to announce that we remove it could be nice
Scoot is it ok with you

Otherwise
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>

Best Regards,
J.