[U-Boot] [PATCH] NAND: Allow drivers to choose ECC block size

[Paulraj, Sandeep]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:13 PM
> To: Paulraj, Sandeep
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] NAND: Allow drivers to choose ECC block size
> 
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:53:36AM -0500, s-paulraj at ti.com wrote:
> > From: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj at ti.com>
> >
> > This patch allows the NAND driver to choose ECC block size in
> > sw ecc case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj at ti.com>
> > ---
> > This applies to u-boot-nand-flash/next
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > index 9263a69..e62060d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > @@ -2842,7 +2842,8 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> >  		chip->ecc.write_page = nand_write_page_swecc;
> >  		chip->ecc.read_oob = nand_read_oob_std;
> >  		chip->ecc.write_oob = nand_write_oob_std;
> > -		chip->ecc.size = 256;
> > +		if (!chip->ecc.size)
> > +			chip->ecc.size = 256;
> >  		chip->ecc.bytes = 3;
> >  		break;
> 
> For this to work, won't the driver have to also be able to override
> ecc.calculate, or else nand_calculate_ecc need to be changed to support
> other ECC block sizes?
> 
> -Scott

I believe so

I think we need this

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/36357/

Sandeep