[PATCH for v3.15 0/2] ARM: mvebu Specificy ECC scheme for A375/385 boards
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun May 25 10:29:06 PDT 2014
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:17:08AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Last minute fixes, which help prevent any inconsistencies between the ECC
> scheme expected by the bootloader, and the one expected by the kernel.
>
> Until now, the kernel was using the ONFI-provided "datasheet ECC requirement",
> and assume the bootloader did the same thing. However, this is not the case
> for these boards, where the vendor provided a bootloader with an ECC strength
> that's weaker than the required.
>
> After the introduction of the NAND ECC devicetree binding, and its support
> in the pxa3xx-nand driver, we can set these values and expect them to work.
>
> I hope it's not too late for v3.15 already.
>
> Ezequiel Garcia (2):
> ARM: dts: Specify the NAND ECC scheme explicitly on Armada 375 DB
> board
> ARM: dts: Specify the NAND ECC scheme explicitly on Armada 385 DB
> board
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375-db.dts | 2 ++
> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-385-db.dts | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
As discussed on irc, I'm pushing this for v3.16 right now. If we later
determine that it needs to be in v3.15, we can send a stable request for
these patches.
Applied to mvebu/dt for v3.16
thx,
Jason.
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