[PATCH] mx31pdk: Add NAND support

[jbe@pengutronix.de (Juergen Beisert)]

Hi Alberto,

Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> On ven, 2010-02-26 at 10:56 +0100, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > > > Are you sure that this works? Don't you see a lot of Bad
> > > > blocks reports
> > > > in boot messages?
> > >
> > > I followed the same approach used on other i.MX boards. This is what I
> > > see: ...
> > > NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xaa (Samsung NAND 256MiB
> > > 1,8V 8-bit) Scanning device for bad blocks
> > > Bad eraseblock 42 at 0x000000540000
> > > Bad eraseblock 125 at 0x000000fa0000
> > > Bad eraseblock 887 at 0x000006ee0000
> > > Bad eraseblock 1750 at 0x00000dac0000
> > > Bad eraseblock 2046 at 0x00000ffc0000
> > > Bad eraseblock 2047 at 0x00000ffe0000
> > > Registering mxc_nand as whole device
> > >
> > > If I define it as:
> > >
> > > static struct mxc_nand_platform_data mx31pdk_nand_board_info = {
> > > 	.width = 1,
> > > 	.hw_ecc = 1,
> > > 	.flash_bbt =1,
> > > };
> >
> > Your bootloader also use a Bad Block Table? Then also your kernel should
> > use it. If hardware ECC is in use, its always a good idea to collect the
> > bad blocks into a BBT. Most of the time you can't control at which offset
> > in the OOB data the NAND controller will store the ECC sum. There is the
> > risk it will destroy manufacturer's bad block markers. So, its better to
> > collect these marked bad blocks into a BBT the first time you use the
> > NAND device. After that _only_ the BBT should be used to handle bad
> > blocks (in the boot loader and the kernel).
>
> Thank you Juergen to participate on this thread.
> Ok, so with this board shall be enabled the flash_bbt checking because
> the bootloader uses it. But how do you explain that on Mine board the
> kernel recognize it correctly and in Fabio's board the kernel prompt
> disagree with the bootloader one? It is a kind of bootloader issue?

Here on my i.MX35 based system the bootloader reports:

NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x20, Chip ID: 0xac (ST Micro NAND 512MiB 1,8V 8-bit)
Bad block table found at page 262080, version 0x01
Bad block table found at page 262016, version 0x01
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x01d00000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10020000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10040000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10060000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10080000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x100a0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x100e0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10120000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10160000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x101a0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x101c0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10200000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x10240000

And the starting kernel reports:

[...]
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x20, Chip ID: 0xac (ST Micro NAND 512MiB 1,8V 8-bit)
Bad block table found at page 262080, version 0x01
Bad block table found at page 262016, version 0x01
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000001d00000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010020000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010040000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010060000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010080000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x0000100a0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x0000100e0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010120000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010160000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x0000101a0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x0000101c0000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010200000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000010240000
[...]

Both are configured to use a BBT and will handle the bad blocks in the same
manner.

Regards,
Juergen

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