[PATCH v4 0/3] mtd: nand: OMAP: ELM error correction support for BCH ecc

[Philip, Avinash]

Hi Artem,

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 13:26:48, Philip, Avinash wrote:
> Support to use ELM as BCH 4 & 8 bit error correction module. Also performance
> enhancement by adding single shot read_page and write_page functions for the
> nand flashes with page size less than 4 KB.
> 
> ELM module can be used to correct errors reported by BCH 4, 8 & 16 bit
> ECC scheme. For now only 4 & 8 bit support is added.
> 
> BCH 4 & 8 bit error detection support is already available in mainline
> kernel and works with software error correction.
> 
> This series is based on linux 3.8-rc2 and tested with [1].
> Also this patch series depend on [1] for NAND flash device
> tree data and gpmc nand device tree binding documentation updates.
> 
> 1. [PATCH v7 0/5] OMAP GPMC DT bindings
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg83505.html
> 
> Tested on am335x-evm for BCH 4 and 8 bit error correction.

Can you apply this patch series on l2-mtd tree as it will help RBL compatibility
ecc layout for NAND flash in am335x-platforms and hardware based BCH error
correction.

Thanks
Avinash

> 
> Changes since v1:
> 	- Erased page is identified by checking byte [13/7] in read
> 	  ecc. To filter out bit flips in OOB area, check 0 bits in
> 	  the byte greater than 4.
> 	- GPMC ecc engine configuration moves to omap2.c NAND driver.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 	- Added runtime detection of elm module, instead of depending
> 	  on platform data.
> 	- Added bit flip correction in OOB ecc data if bit flip happen
> 	  OOB data.
> 
> Changes since v3:
> 	- Availability and usability of ELM module is detected from device
> 	  tree nodes by checking availability of ELM node in device tree.
> 
> Philip Avinash (3):
>   mtd: nand: omap2: Update nerrors using ecc.strength
>   mtd: devices: elm: Add support for ELM error correction
>   mtd: nand: omap2: Support for hardware BCH error correction.
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/elm.txt      |   16 +
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt          |    4 +
>  drivers/mtd/devices/Makefile                       |    4 +-
>  drivers/mtd/devices/elm.c                          |  405 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c                           |  583 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/platform_data/elm.h                  |   54 ++
>  6 files changed, 1023 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/elm.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/devices/elm.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/elm.h
> 
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