[PATCH] MTD: atmel_nand: Update driver to support Programmable HW ECC controller

[Xu, Hong]

Hi JC,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagnioj at jcrosoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:45 PM
> To: Xu, Hong
> Cc: dedekind1 at gmail.com; linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org;
dwmw2 at infradead.org;
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: atmel_nand: Update driver to support
Programmable
> HW ECC controller
> 
> On 15:17 Mon 13 Feb     , Hong Xu wrote:
> > The Programmable Hardware ECC (PMECC) controller is a programmable
binary
> > BCH(Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem) encoder and decoder. This
controller
> > can be used to support both SLC and MLC NAND Flash devices. It
supports to
> > generate ECC to correct 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 bits of error per sector
of data.
> >
> > To use this driver, the user needs to pass in the correction
capability and
> > the sector size.
> >
> > This driver has been tested on AT91SAM9X5-EK and AT91SAM9N12-EK with
JFFS2,
> > YAFFS2, UBIFS and mtd-utils.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hong Xu <hong.xu at atmel.com>
> > ---
> this patch must be based on the nand fixes and DT support
> 
> and pass the rom code base via resoruces
> 
> and drop the ifdef

OK no problem. I'll collect other comments, then merge and convert it
with DT support.

BR,
Eric

> Best Regards,
> J.