[PATCH 0/4 v2] mtd:nand:omap2: clean-up of supported ECC schemes

jean-philippe francois jp.francois at cynove.com
Fri May 24 09:01:14 EDT 2013


2013/5/17 Gupta, Pekon <pekon at ti.com>:
> From: "Gupta, Pekon" <pekon at ti.com>
>
> [Change v1 -> v2]
>         added   [PATCH 3/4] and [PATCH 4/4]
>
> [PATCH 1/4]: clean-up and optimization for supported ECC schemes.
> [PATCH 2/4]: add separate DT options each supported ECC scheme.
> [PATCH 3/4]: update BCH4 ECC implementation (using ELM or using lib/bch.h)
> [PATCH 4/4]: update DT attribute for ti,nand-ecc-opt
>
> After this patch series, omap2-nand driver will supports following ECC schemes:
> +---------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> | ECC scheme                            |ECC calculation|Error detection|
> +---------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> |OMAP_ECC_HAMMING_CODE_DEFAULT          |S/W            |S/W            |
> |OMAP_ECC_HAMMING_CODE_HW               |H/W (GPMC)     |S/W            |
> |OMAP_ECC_HAMMING_CODE_HW_ROMCODE       |H/W (GPMC)     |S/W            |
> +---------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> |OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW     |H/W (GPMC)     |S/W (lib/bch.h)|
> |OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW                  |H/W (GPMC)     |H/W (ELM)      |
> +---------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> |OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW     |H/W (GPMC)     |S/W (lib/bch.h)|
> |OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW                  |H/W (GPMC)     |H/W (ELM)      |
> +---------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> - Selection of OMAP_ECC_BCHx_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW requires,
>         Kconfig: CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_BCH: enables S/W based BCH ECC algorithm.
>
> - Selection of OMAP_ECC_BCHx_CODE_HW requires,
>         Kconfig: CONFIG_MTD_NAND_OMAP_BCH: enables ELM H/W module.
>
>

Hi,

Thank you for not dropping BCH4 with software detection.
BCH4_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW tested sucessfully on an existing nand with BCH4 ECC.
- Linux flashed kernel was read by u-boot sucessfully.
- existing ubifs sucessfully mounted.

Regards,
Jean-Philippe François


> Gupta, Pekon (4):
>   mtd:nand:omap2: clean-up BCHx_HW and BCHx_SW ECC configurations in
>     device_probe
>   ARM: OMAP2+: cleaned-up DT support of various ECC schemes
>   mtd:nand:omap2: updated support for BCH4 ECC scheme
>   ARM: OMAP2+: updated ECC scheme attributes for omap2-nand DT
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt          |  52 ++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-evm.dts                   |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc.c                         |  17 +-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig                           |   1 -
>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c                           | 413 +++++++++------------
>  include/linux/platform_data/elm.h                  |   4 +
>  include/linux/platform_data/mtd-nand-omap2.h       |  22 +-
>  7 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.1
>



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