[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to supportlarge-page Nand chip

[Matthew L. Creech]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:12 -0400
> Mike Hench <mhench at elutions.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Any boot ideas ?
>> Will the FCM load 2k and run it?
>
> The 4K boot region will have to be split over pages 0 and 2 (2k view) or
> the first half of pages 0 and 1 (4k view).
>

(Redirecting to the U-Boot list)

Hi Scott,

Does this kind of page-splitting only apply to the IPL and nothing
else?  If so, it seems that if:

1. modifications are made to U-Boot's fsl_elbc_nand driver similar to
Liu Shuo's kernel mods, and
2. an option is added to generate u-boot-nand.bin with its IPL split
into two 2k chunks

then we can boot and run entirely from a 4k page device on MPC 83xx, correct?

That would be very good news, as it seems that [some] 2k NAND parts
are starting to go EOL.

Thanks!

-- 
Matthew L. Creech