[U-Boot] Broken ecc.size when switching between sw and hw ecc (beagleboard)

[Scott Wood]

On 03/01/2012 03:17 AM, Orjan Friberg wrote:
> On 02/29/2012 10:00 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> ECC mode is normally not something that you want to be runtime
>> switchable, as changing it usually changes the on-flash format.  It also
>> requires driver cooperation -- the actual implementation (as opposed to
>> the command-line wrapper) is in drivers/mtd/nand/omap_gpmc.c.
> 
> Are you saying that it shouldn't be switchable through a command line
> option (but rather based on information in the partition table or
> something similar), or are you saying that we shouldn't need different
> ECC modes for different parts of the flash (boot ROM vs. software
> implementations, whether block 0 has different ECC requirement etc)?

I'm saying that right now it's an OMAP-specific requirement and the
implementation of necessity involves the OMAP driver.  If another driver
grows this as a requirement, we can consider refactoring so the command
line frontend is common.

Different ECC modes for different parts of the flash is unfortunate, but
sometimes mandated by circumstance.  The NAND subsystem isn't really set
up to handle this, though changing it temporally is a hackish substitute.

-Scott