[PATCH] AT91RM9200 NAND support

[Savin Zlobec]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

>Savin,
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>On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:49 +0200, Savin Zlobec wrote:
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>Patch is correct, applied. Thanks
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>>And managed to erase the nand flash  and mount JFFS2 on it, but writting 
>>still
>>didn't work -  got  errors like :
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>>Data CRC d507eb40 != calculated CRC 2e617dde for node at 00e4f700
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>>The I put a call to nand_wait_ready at the top of nand_command function and
>>as far as I could test everything worked (exept that the flash is still 
>>recognized as Toshiba (0x98) not Samsung (0xec)).
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>Well, we read the manufacturer ID. When we get 98H, how should we know
>that this is a Samsung part ? And I doubt that this is a quad bit flip.
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What bothers me is that MTD from 2.6.17 reads manufacturer ID = 0xec,  and
the latest git MTD reads 0x98. The chip on my board is Samsung.

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>>It looks (to me) that there are still some parts of the code that should 
>>wait for nand to get ready before sending commands.
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>The only point where this really matters is, when we read data from
>those chips. They have a horrible feature, which automatically loads the
>next page into the internal buffer. There are only two places where we
>actually read from the device. On has the check at the correct place
>already, the other fixed you up.
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>Can you please remove the nand_wait_ready() call in nand_command() and
>test the following patch ? It disables the ready busy pin and uses the
>chip_delay. Please check, whether the 20us are correct. You can safely
>set it to 50 without breaking stuff.
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It doesn't work with 20us nor with 50us.

savin