[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] NAND: Allow per-buffer allocation

[Scott Wood]

On 09/22/2011 03:51 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 09:41:21 AM Stefano Babic wrote:
>> On 09/21/2011 10:16 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> Dear Stefano & Marek,
>>>
>>> can you please provide the requested information?
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>>> In message <4E7A4145.30501 at freescale.com> Scott Wood wrote:
>>>>> In message <4E7A320D.1030002 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>>>>>> Is this hardware going to be supported in Linux?  It would be nice if
>>>>>> we could keep this code in sync.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stefano has submitted patches for the iMX28 based M28 / M28EVK board,
>>>>> so yes, this hardware going to be supported in mainline Linux, too.
>>>>
>>>> How do the Linux iMX28 patches deal with NAND_OWN_BUFFERS?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to see this change be submitted to Linux first, or else have an
>>>> explanation of why a divergence for U-Boot is warranted.
>>
>> I tested NAND with the gpmi-nand patches sent to linux-arm by Huang Shije:
>>
>> 	http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg139526.html
>>
>> However, I have not seen the option NAND_OWN_BUFFERS in his patches.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefano
> 
> Like I said, this patch is not needed anymore. It's just a convenience measure 
> now. I don't need to for mx28.
> 

Let's hold off on this patch until it's actually needed, then.

-Scott