[PATCH v3 0/2] Add NAND ECC devicetree binding
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 03:20:09 EST 2014
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:59:24AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:24:47PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > Third round, fixing a stupid semi-colon miss.
> >
> > NAND controllers have special ECC modes, raising per-driver ECC mode devicetree
> > binding. See for instance the binding for OMAP:
> >
> > - ti,nand-ecc-opt: A string setting the ECC layout to use. One of:
> > "sw" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> > "hw" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> > "hw-romcode" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> > "ham1" 1-bit Hamming ecc code
> > "bch4" 4-bit BCH ecc code
> > "bch8" 8-bit BCH ecc code
> >
> > Other drivers (such as pxa3xx-nand) have similar requirements, with special
> > (controller-specific) ECC modes. Instead of adding a possibly different
> > binding per compatible-string, let's add generic ECC strength and ECC step size.
> >
> > This properties aim at providing a complete description of the required ECC
> > correction to let drivers choose the appropriate ECC mode.
> >
[...]
>
> Brian? Any chance this lands on v3.15?
Pushed to l2-mtd.git. Thanks!
Brian
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