[U-Boot] [PATCH] mxs_nand: Fix ECC strength for NAND flash with OOB size of 256

[Jörg Krause]

Hi Heiko,

On So, 2015-04-12 at 10:17 +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> On the i.mx6 based aristainetos2 board a Toshiba TH58NYG3S0HBAI4
> is used, which has 4096 pagesize and 256b oob. The ECC strength
> was not correct detected by U-Boot
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/mxs_nand.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/mxs_nand.c 
> b/drivers/mtd/nand/mxs_nand.c
> index 2d2b938..00bf036 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/mxs_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/mxs_nand.c
> @@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ static inline uint32_t 
> mxs_nand_get_ecc_strength(uint32_t page_data_size,
>  
>               if (page_oob_size == 224)
>                       return 16;
> +
> +             if (page_oob_size == 256)
> +                     return 18;
>       }
>  
>       return 0;

How about calculation the ECC strength dynamically? Peng Fan from 
Freescale send a patch doing this in December 2014 which was already 
reviewed by Marek:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/422756/

It is also necessary to change the calculation in mxsboot...

Best regards
Jörg Krause