[PATCH] mtd: nand: Add support for reading ooblayout from device tree
Paul Cercueil
paul at crapouillou.net
Sat May 12 10:42:49 PDT 2018
>> >> My motivation is to get rid of this (move it to devicetree):
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/mips/jz4740/board-qi_lb60.c#L93
>> >> And enable the support of other boards with custom OOB layouts.
>> >
>> > Can you list the different layouts you have? I'm pretty sure
>> there's a
>> > pattern. Maybe we can even deduce the layout from the page size
>> or OOB
>> > size.
>>
>> This is the other layout I have for another ingenic device:
>>
>> http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qi-kernel/source/tree/od-2011-09-18/arch/mips/jz4740/board-a320.c#L125
>>
>> Page size and OOB size are the same between these two devices.
>
> Indeed. Do you know if there are other kind of layouts in the wild?
I'm getting a new board in a few weeks, I'll be able to check that out.
> Note that <layout-id> can be a string, so if each each board is
> defining its own layout, you could specify the board name here.
> Otherwise, if you just have those 2 patterns, you can just name them
> "contiguous" and "interleaved".
I don't like the idea of adding board-specific data inside the driver...
I'd prefer to use the method I used in this patch, but inside the
jz4740-nand driver, if you're OK with it.
Thanks,
-Paul
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