[U-Boot] [PATCH 10/15] sunxi_nand_spl: Remove NAND_SUNXI_SPL_SYNDROME_PARTITIONS_END

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 17-08-15 10:27, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 22:02 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> We currently only use the spl nand code to get u-boot itself, which
>> _always_ is located on a syndrome partition. Once we figure out how
>> we are going to store the u-boot env on nand, we may need non syndrome
>> support, but even then there will likely be better ways to determine
>> whether to use syndrome or not (e.g. look at the loadaddr passed in).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>
> I suppose I should back reference my question as to whether we should
> remove this option (even though it seems to have ended up the other way
> round to what I was anticipating).

Actually I've been discussing nand partitioning with Boris Brezillon and
it looks like that we need may need to use a non syndrome partition for
u-boot on some nands, because the ecc options supported by the BROM are
too weak for this nand, so we will only use a BROM compatible ecc setting
for the spl and use a separate nand partition for u-boot. We're still
figuring this out, but I think I'll drop this patch for now, as we may
need this after all.

Regards,

Hans