From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:45:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MTD: atmel_nand: Update driver to support Programmable HW ECC controller In-Reply-To: <1329117469-23637-1-git-send-email-hong.xu@atmel.com> References: <1329117469-23637-1-git-send-email-hong.xu@atmel.com> Message-ID: <20120213084516.GB3378@game.jcrosoft.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 15:17 Mon 13 Feb , Hong Xu wrote: > The Programmable Hardware ECC (PMECC) controller is a programmable binary > BCH(Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem) encoder and decoder. This controller > can be used to support both SLC and MLC NAND Flash devices. It supports to > generate ECC to correct 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 bits of error per sector of data. > > To use this driver, the user needs to pass in the correction capability and > the sector size. > > This driver has been tested on AT91SAM9X5-EK and AT91SAM9N12-EK with JFFS2, > YAFFS2, UBIFS and mtd-utils. > > Signed-off-by: Hong Xu > --- this patch must be based on the nand fixes and DT support and pass the rom code base via resoruces and drop the ifdef Best Regards, J.