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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: brcmnand (iproc): bitflips and ECC errors due to ignored ECC config
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:21:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160208192111.GA62607@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=U0a1vj1020X8BjvYGSOi7GrJCAad3A8wCeosuEo+7i4Rk3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:15:16PM -0500, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> When SECTOR_SIZE = 512B, SPARE_AREA_SIZE  = 16, ECC_LEVEL = 15 enables
> 1-bit Hamming ECC protection. So the ecc_level field is the SoC
> internal representation for 1-bit hamming. If you mean by "removing
> handling" you made strength=ecc_level=1, then you are now using 1-bit
> BCH.

It kinda sounds like Rafal is suggesting this product uses 1-bit BCH.
I didn't even remember such a thing existed on this controller.
Unfortunately, we don't really have a way to clearly differentiate 1-bit
Hamming and 1-bit BCH in DT, do we? Both could equally well be described
by:

	nand-ecc-strength = <1>;
	nand-ecc-step-size = <512>;

Maybe we need a custom BRCM property?

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 12:59 brcmnand (iproc): bitflips and ECC errors due to ignored ECC config Rafał Miłecki
2016-02-08  9:54 ` Rafał Miłecki
2016-02-08 19:15   ` Kamal Dasu
2016-02-08 19:21     ` Brian Norris [this message]
2016-02-08 20:05       ` Kamal Dasu
2016-02-12 12:06         ` Rafał Miłecki
2016-02-12 16:16           ` Kamal Dasu
2016-02-12 18:10             ` Rafał Miłecki

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