[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] sunxi_nand_spl: Remove NAND_SUNXI_SPL_SYNDROME_PARTITIONS_END

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Wed Aug 26 20:37:15 CEST 2015


On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 09:18 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 24-08-15 19:02, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 20:13 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > We only ever use syndrome mode for the partitions which contain 
> > > the SPL,
> > > as that is required for the BROM to be able to read the SPL.
> > > 
> > > Instead of using some arbritray limit for deciding whether or not 
> > > to
> > > use syndrome, be smart and check if u-boot-dtb.bin is directly 
> > > behind
> > > the SPL, if it is not then it is on its own partition and we 
> > > should not
> > > use syndrome.
> > > 
> > > Note the reason why we only use syndrome mode is because it comes 
> > > with
> > > weaker randomization,
> > 
> > "...why we only use syndrome mode for the SPL is because..."
> > 
> > >   introducing a risc for more bit errors,
> > 
> > risk
> 
> Will fix.

With that: Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>



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