Question about nand_scan()

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Jan,

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:29:44 +0200
Jan Glauber <jan.glauber at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on a driver for the NAND controller on Cavium's ThunderX.
> 
> So far I implemented the low-level functions for using the controller
> to access a NAND chip. I can read the ONFI ID and parameter page
> with that.
> 
> Now I wanted to use nand_scan() instead of manually reading the chip
> parameters, but it fails with "No NAND device found".
> 
> The hardware I'm using has one NAND device wired as chip 1 (the NAND
> controller support chips 0..7).
> 
> The reason for the failure seems to be that nand_get_flash_type()
> returns an error before all the chips are scanned. What I don't
> understand is in that function chip 0 is selected before the loop
> that would scan all chips:
> 
>         /* Select the device */
>         chip->select_chip(mtd, 0);
> 
> My select_chip() stores the chip number (in that case 0) and uses
> that for subsequent commands to the controller. Since there is no
> chip 0 the read returns nothing and nand_scan() fails.
> 
> Probably I'm missing something, would be great if someone could
> help me...

Actually, the chip parameter passed to ->select_chip() is not the
CS-id from the NAND controller PoV, but the one from the NAND chip PoV.

You have to store an association table between chip⁻CS and controller-CS
somewhere in your NAND controller private struct (a struct inheriting
from nand_control_hw).

And remember that nand_scan_ident() is supposed to detect a single NAND
chip, not all the chips connected to your controller (the multi-CS
logic is here to handle multi-dies NANDs, not the case where you have
multiple NAND chips connected to the same controller).

You can have a look at the sunxi_nand [1] driver if you want an example.

Regards,

Boris

[1]http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c#L219