[PATCH v3] mtd: omap: nand: Remove 0xFF's that prefixed 16bit NAND addresses

Christopher Harvey charvey at matrox.com
Thu Nov 15 09:48:00 EST 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:02:09PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:51 -0400, Christopher Harvey wrote:
> > In 16bit NAND mode the GPMC would send the address 0xNN as 0xFFNN
> > instead of 0x00NN on the bus. The 0xFFs were actually uninitialized
> > bits that were left unset in the GPMC command output register. The
> > reason they weren't initialized in 16bit mode is that if the same code
> > that writes to this register was used in 8bit mode then 2 commands
> > would be output in 8bit mode. One for the low byte, and an extra 0x0
> > command for the high byte. This commit uses writew if we're using
> > 16bit NAND. This commit also changes the high byte in the command
> > output register, but they are ignored by NAND chips anyway.
> > 
> > Most chips seem fine with the extra 0xFFs, but the ONFI spec says
> > otherwise.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christopher Harvey <charvey at matrox.com>
> 
> Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

!!! Did anybody get around to testing this? I thought this patch had
    been abandoned. Will testing get done on an omap chip now that it
    is in a tree?

I should have prefixed it with RFC.

-C

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