[PATCH 1/3] of: mtd: add helper reading "nand-ecc-algo" from DT

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Rafal,

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:11:23 +0100
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This allows specifying algorithm used for NAND ECC. There are two
> available values: "bch" and "hamming". It's important as having just
> ECC parameters (step, strength) isn't enough to determine algorithm,
> e.g. you can't distinct BCH-1 and Hamming.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt |  3 +++
>  drivers/of/of_mtd.c                            | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mtd/nand.h                       |  5 ++++
>  include/linux/of_mtd.h                         |  6 +++++
>  4 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt
> index b53f92e..a2c2df5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt
> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
>  - nand-ecc-mode : String, operation mode of the NAND ecc mode.
>    Supported values are: "none", "soft", "hw", "hw_syndrome", "hw_oob_first",
>    "soft_bch".
> +- nand-ecc-algo : string, algorithm of NAND ecc.
> +		  Supported values are: "bch", "hamming". The default one is
> +		  "bch".

I like the idea of specifying which ECC algorithm should be used, and
this is IMO clearer than putting the information directly in
nand-ecc-mode (as is already done for the "soft" and "soft_bch" modes,
which are respectively encoding software hamming and software bch
implementations).

But shouldn't we take this even further and add new DT properties
to encode the ECC layout (syndrome, oob_first), and another one to
specify the implementation type (software or hardware)?

nand-ecc-layout = "nornal", "syndrome" or "oob_first"
nand-ecc-engine = "none", "soft" or "hw" ("on-die" ?)

Note that it's not something I ask you to do right now, I just want to
bring the topic on the table.

Best Regards,

Boris

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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com