[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5 v2] mtd/nand: workaround for Freescale FCM to support 4k pagesize Nand chip

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Dec 14 18:54:49 CET 2011


On 12/14/2011 01:30 AM, Liu Shengzhou-B36685 wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:14 AM
>> To: Liu Shengzhou-B36685
>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Gala Kumar-B11780; Liu Shuo-B35362
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5 v2] mtd/nand: workaround for Freescale FCM to
>> support 4k pagesize Nand chip
>>
>> I've asked you several times what you're planning on doing for bad block
>> marker migration.  I am not going to let you ignore this.  NACK until you
>> have a migration tool, and a scheme for marking the flash as having been
>> migrated.
>>
> 
> [Shengzhou] 
> This is the first time that you asked me about bad block marker migration.
> You asked LiuShuo several times in Linux mail list, as I am not in that thread
> And not known about it until Liushuo told me. 
> As LiuShuo will do it, so I am not planning on it.

Ah, sorry about that.

Still, I'd like to see it done, whoever does it, before this gets
merged.  I don't want people to be able to accidentally start using it
without doing migration.

>>> +			nand->ecc.layout = (priv->fmr & FMR_ECCM) ?
>>> +			   &fsl_elbc_oob_lp_eccm1 : &fsl_elbc_oob_lp_eccm0;
>>> +			nand->badblock_pattern = &largepage_memorybased;
>>
>> Those oob layouts won't be quite right for larger page sizes.
>>
>> -Scott
> [Shengzhou] It's the same with what Linux does. What's the right?

I think we need to explicitly define 4096 and 8192 variants, with the
extra eccpos/oobfree.  Or generate them programatically.

-Scott



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