Hardware ECC in NAND flash driver

[Steven Hein]

Hello,

I'm working on the Linux port to the Samsung S3C2410 PDA controller
(ARM 920T core with many interfaces, including a NAND flash controller,
built-in).  The 2410's NAND flash controller generates ECC codes
(3 bytes ECC per each 512 bytes data).  Are there any plans to
incorporate hardware ECC support into this driver?  Specifically,
I guess that would mean adding "hooks" so the hardware-specific
driver could handle the ECC parts   (I only had to make
a few small changes to nand.c to get this working for the 2410.)
If there's an effort underway in this area, I'd be happy to
participate in the development.

Thanks,
Steve


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