[PATCH v4 06/31] mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add documentation about the controller
Ezequiel Garcia
ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 14 14:49:07 EST 2013
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:00:04AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:17:10PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > Given there's no public specification to this date, and in order
> > to capture some important details and singularities about the
> > controller let's document them once and for good.
>
> Made a few small tweaks for spelling and such (see the following diff)
> and pushed patches 5 through 14 to l2-mtd.git/next.
>
The below diff looks ok. I had to rework a few patches after the
completion patch rework, and I'm running some tests.
I'll submit the series as soon as the tests are done.
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt
> index 00e601c..840fd41 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OOB, one per chunk read.
> So, in order to achieve reading (for instance), we issue several READ0 commands
> (with some additional controller-specific magic) and read two chunks of 2080B
> (2048 data + 32 spare) each.
> -The driver accomodates this data to expose the NAND core a contiguous buffer
> +The driver accommodates this data to expose the NAND core a contiguous buffer
> (4096 data + spare) or (4096 + spare + ECC + spare + ECC).
>
> ECC
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ an *entire* page.
> Factory bad blocks handling
> ===========================
>
> -Given the ECC BCH requires to layout the device's pages in a splitted
> +Given the ECC BCH requires to layout the device's pages in a split
> data/OOB/data/OOB way, the controller has a view of the flash page that's
> different from the specified (aka the manufacturer's) view. In other words,
>
> @@ -109,5 +109,5 @@ disabled by using the NAND_BBT_NO_OOB_BBM option in the driver. The rationale
> for this is that there's no point in marking a block as bad, because good
> blocks are also 'marked as bad' (in the OOB BBM sense) under normal usage.
>
> -Instead, the drive relies in the bad block table alone, and should only perform
> +Instead, the driver relies on the bad block table alone, and should only perform
> the bad block scan on the very first time (when the device hasn't been used).
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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