[PATCH 07/17] mtd: nand_mrvl_nfc: Use Auto Read Status on program/erase

Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Sat Oct 10 02:49:27 PDT 2015


Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com> writes:

> And the reason why I didn't do any timing rework is that DT
> infrastructure for passing timing information, ONFI parsing, aso
> is still very vague. I really need more time to think about the
> best way to deal with it.
>
> For example, ONFI timings give you a set of timings but they do
> not specify tPROG, tERASE and friends. Those have to be parsed
> from some other ONFI commands. I really want to do this step
> by step and it has to be in-sync with Linux mtd... something
> that would stall NAND support on Armada a little while.
>
> Bottom-line: If the Auto RS feature doesn't break PXA, I'd
> appreciate if it is enabled at least until I can confirm
> proper timings are being read for the device I have.
I'll make the test.
And yes, if no breakage, that's a good reason, it even deserves a note in the
commit message, at least that without it you have timeout issues on Armada.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert



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