Question about AM335x SoC supported NAND flash

[Ezequiel García]

Pekon,

On 19 February 2014 14:55, Gupta, Pekon <pekon at ti.com> wrote:
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>>Accessing it from U-Boot and Linux works just fine, apparently in ECC BCH8 mode.
>>
>>However, we cannot get the SoC to boot from NAND. We've double-checked
>>the hardware
>>and the SYSBOOT, but still no luck with it.
>>
> It's a 4K pagesize device with OOBsize=128, so ROM code expects BCH16 ECC scheme
> to boot SPL. Though I have locally tested BCH16 support for both u-boot and kernel,
> And even booted end-to-end using BCH16 on beaglebone with 4K page NAND cape,
> But that's all locally..
> Many prior dependent patches are still awaiting acceptance in mainline list.
>

Ah... so that would explain our complete failure.

Could you send me some draft patches or event just the entire driver
or at least point me to some git repo?

This issue is currently blocking us from shipping the board to my office
so we can continue with the rest of the broad bring-up.

Huge thanks for your answer! I almost went crazy with this :-)
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Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar