[PATCH 2.6.30-rc6 3/3] NAND: Add 4-bit ECC support for large page NAND chips
Troy Kisky
troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com
Mon May 18 19:57:48 EDT 2009
nsnehaprabha at ti.com wrote:
> From: Sneha Narnakaje <nsnehaprabha at ti.com>
>
> This patch adds 4-bit ECC support for large page NAND chips using the new ECC
> mode NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST. The platform data from board-dm355-evm has been
> adjusted to use this mode.
>
> The patches have been verified on DM355 device with 2K Micron devices using
> mtd-tests and JFFS2. Error correction upto 4-bits has also been verified using
> nandwrite/nanddump utilities.
>
> Reviewed-by: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
> Signed-off-by: Sneha Narnakaje <nsnehaprabha at ti.com>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
> index ba6940d..4557b8d 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
> @@ -500,6 +500,24 @@ static struct nand_ecclayout hwecc4_small __initconst = {
> },
> };
>
> +/* An ECC layout for using 4-bit ECC with large-page (2048bytes) flash,
> + * storing ten ECC bytes plus the manufacturer's bad block marker byte,
> + * and not overlapping the default BBT markers.
> + */
> +static struct nand_ecclayout hwecc4_2048 __initconst = {
> + .eccbytes = 40,
> + .eccpos = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
> + /* offset 5 holds the badblock marker */
I don't see any bad block overrides to move it from bytes 0,1
to byte 5 in this patch. What am I missing?
> + 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
> + /* 8 bytes at offset 16 hold JFFS2 clean markers */
> + 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,
> + 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,
> + 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, },
> + .oobfree = {
> + {.offset = 16, .length = 8, },
> + {.offset = 49, },
> + },
> +};
>
> static int __init nand_davinci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> @@ -689,15 +707,22 @@ static int __init nand_davinci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> info->mtd.oobsize - 16;
> goto syndrome_done;
> }
> + if (chunks == 4) {
> + info->ecclayout = hwecc4_2048;
> + info->ecclayout.oobfree[1].length =
> + info->mtd.oobsize - 49;
- info->ecclayout.oobfree[1].offset instead of 49 would look better.
or move the .offset = 49 here too.
> + info->chip.ecc.mode = NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST;
> + goto syndrome_done;
> + }
>
> - /* For large page chips we'll be wanting to use a
> - * not-yet-implemented mode that reads OOB data
> - * before reading the body of the page, to avoid
> - * the "infix OOB" model of NAND_ECC_HW_SYNDROME
> - * (and preserve manufacturer badblock markings).
> + /* 4K page chips are not yet supported. The eccpos from
> + * nand_ecclayout cannot hold 80bytes and change to eccpos[]
> + * breaks userspace ioctl interface with mtd-utils. Once we
> + * resolve this issue, NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST mode can be used
> + * for the 4K page chips.
> */
> dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "no 4-bit ECC support yet "
> - "for large page NAND\n");
> + "for 4K page NAND\n");
> ret = -EIO;
> goto err_scan;
>
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