[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/7] mtd: nand: add driver for diskonchip g4 nand flash

[Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>]

On 04/11/2013 02:00 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 04/10/2013 07:45:27 PM, Mike Dunn wrote:
>> This patch adds a driver for the diskonchip G4 nand flash device.  It is based
>> on the driver from the linux kernel.
>>
>> This also includes a separate SPL driver.  A separate SPL driver is used because
>> the device operates in a different mode (reliable mode) when loading a boot
>> image, and also because the storage format of the boot image is different from
>> normal data (pages are stored redundantly).  The SPL driver basically mimics how
>> a typical IPL reads data from the device.  The special operating mode and
>> storage format are used to compensate for the fact that the IPL does not contain
>> the BCH ecc decoding algorithm (due to size constraints).  Although the u-boot
>> SPL *could* use ecc, it operates like an IPL for the sake of simplicity and
>> uniformity, since the IPL and SPL share the task of loading the u-boot image.
>> As a side benefit, the SPL driver is very small.
>>
>> [port from linux kernel 3.4 commit 570469f3bde7f71cc1ece07a18d54a05b6a8775d]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile    |    2 +
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/docg4.c     | 1035 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/docg4_spl.c |  222 +++++++++
>>  include/linux/mtd/docg4.h    |  134 ++++++
>>  4 files changed, 1393 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/docg4.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/docg4_spl.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mtd/docg4.h
> [snip]
>> +#ifdef DEBUG_DOCG4
>> +#define dbg(format, arg...) printf("DEBUG: " format, ##arg)
>> +#else
>> +#define dbg(format, arg...) do {} while (0)
>> +#endif
> 
> Maybe use MTDDEBUG?


Ok.  Alternatively, I wouldn't mind pulling them out entirely.  It's been
behaving quite nicely, and amyway, in the past I used a JTAG emultor rather than
the printfs.


> 
> Otherwise:
> Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>


Many thanks Scott,
Mike