[PATCH] mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand: workaround for hangs on MPC837X
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Mar 28 14:53:57 EDT 2008
Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> @@ -495,6 +495,16 @@ static void fsl_elbc_write_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, const u8 *buf, int len)
> }
>
> memcpy_toio(&ctrl->addr[ctrl->index], buf, len);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MPC837x
> + /*
> + * This is workaround for the weird elbc hangs on the MPC837X CPUs,
> + * Scott Wood says: "...perhaps difference in how long it takes a
> + * write to make it through the localbus compared to a write to IMMR
> + * is causing problems, and sync isn't helping for some reason."
> + * Reading back the last byte helps though.
> + */
> + in_8(&ctrl->addr[ctrl->index] + len - 1);
> +#endif
Let's do it regardless of chip -- odds are the issue exists on all
implementations, and it's just a function of what frequencies things are
running at.
-Scott
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