[PATCH v4 3/3] ARM: OMAP: gpmc: add DT bindings for GPMC timings and NAND

Daniel Mack zonque at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 05:55:12 EST 2012


On 23.11.2012 11:47, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  D> +	Layouts for 1-bit ecc: stored at beginning of spare area as romcode:
>  D> +
>  D> +		"hw-romcode"	gpmc method & romcode layout
>  D> +		"bch4"		4-bit BCH ecc code
>  D> +		"bch8"		8-bit BCH ecc code
>  D> +
>  >> 
>  >> These are not 1-bit - Well, romcode might be depending on SoC. Looking at
>  >> omap2.c it seems to be an alias for hw, so that isn't really helpful on
>  >> E.G. am33xx where you should select bch8 to have something compatible
>  >> with the romcode.
> 
>  Daniel> Not sure whether I follow you here. drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c handles
>  Daniel> cases for pdata->ecc_opt == OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW, so the DT bindings
>  Daniel> need to offer a way to set it.
> 
>  Daniel> Or are you purely referring to the comments only?
> 
> Yes, but the document states (the first line I'm quotinge) 'Layouts for
> 1-bit ecc'.

Ok, I guess I'll just remove these comments then.

> The other comment was about hw-romcode not being a very good
> name, as it apparently means the 1bit hamming code and ECC layout used
> on the older omap3, and not E.G. the bch8/elm layout used by
> E.G. am335x.

So which name would you pick? "bch1"?

> As discussed elsewhere, the elm also changes the ECC layout, so why not
> just have bchN (software bchN layout) / bchN-elm selections instead of
> the seperate ti,nand-ecc-use-elm?

Avinash - what do you think?


Thanks for the feedback - I'd also like to get these bindings right in
the first place.


Daniel




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