[PATCH v2 0/4] Allow to specify an ECC scheme through DT

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 14 07:56:22 PDT 2014


On Apr 03, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Apr 01, Simon Guinot wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 08:34:46AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > Now that we have agreed on the ECC devicetree binding, here's a patchset
> > > that makes pxa3xx-nand driver use it.
> > > 
> > > This work is required on platforms where the flash device reports a required
> > > ECC strength, but that are capable of handling a stronger one. Simon Guinot
> > > reported a situation where the vendor provided a bootloader configured with
> > > a stronger than required ECC scheme. Without this patches, such a situation
> > > would require a hack to make the driver use a specific ECC scheme.
> > > 
> > > (Simon: it would be great if you can confirm this allows you to remove any hacks).
> > 
> > Hi Ezequiel,
> > 
> > I confirm this allows me to configure the ECC strength and step size
> > from DT.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot at sequanux.org>
> > 
> 
> Thanks a lot for the test.
> 
> Brian, any comments?

Any chance this can be applied?
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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