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=E4=BA=8E 2013=E5=B9=B405=E6=9C=8816=E6=97=A5 01:04, Vikram Narayanan =E5=
=86=99=E9=81=93:
> I wonder what do we do, if the chip is not ONFI compliant?
> which means when the legacy calculation in GPMI goes wrong?
It may goes wrong _sometimes_.

For example, the TC58NVG5D2 requires 40bits per 1024bytes.
the legacy gpmi will fail in this nand. the gpmi assumes it can use all=20
the oob,
so it get a 56bits per 1024types. the 56bits is beyond its hardware's=20
capacity.
it will fail in this case. But with this patch set, the gpmi works fine.

thanks
Huang Shijie