[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] mtd/nand : Add function board_nand_init_tail() for some special NAND controllers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 22 November 2011 03:54:14 Shengzhou Liu wrote:
> In some NAND controllers there is a size limitation of RAM buffer(2K
> bytes). To support large-page NAND chips with greater than 2K pagesize, we
> need a large buffer, but we don't know pagesize before calling
> nand_scan_ident(), for more flexible and to identify different cases of
> large-page greater than 2K bytes, we have a board_nand_init_tail() between
> nand_scan_ident() and nand_scan_tail().

iirc, newer Linux mtd tree handles this better by breaking up the code paths 
so individual drivers can call things in the right order.  perhaps we should 
update our mtd stack so we can do that ?
-mike
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