Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mtd: nand: add sunxi NAND flash controller support

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Boris,

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:26:26PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the sunxi NAND Flash Controller (NFC)
> block.
> 
> These two patches only add support for the basic NAND stuff:
>  - NAND controller operations
>  - SW and HW ECC handling (with both syndrome and normal ECC scheme)
> 
> If you want support for advanced features you can find it on my github
> repo [1]:
>  - HW randomization support
>  - per partition ECC/Randomizer to handle bootloader partitions
> 
> DMA transfers are not supported yet, but I have reworked the OOB layout
> when using the HW ECC scheme to match the one used when accessing the NAND
> with DMA transfers (the available OOB bytes are placed at the end of the
> OOB area).
> 
> This patch series depends on this other one [2] which adds support for ONFI
> timing mode retrieval on non-ONFI NANDs.

Were you planning to send v2 of your series [2]? I see you made a
mistake you were planning on fixing:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/30/423

Brian

> Best Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]https://github.com/bbrezillon/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-nand-v4
> [2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/28/156
> 
> Changes since v3:
>  - removed nand core code modifications from the patch series (submitted
>    separately)
>  - added documentation to the code
>  - forced timeout (a default timeout is used when none is provided by the
>    caller) on controller operations
>  - fixed coding style issues
>  - removed unneeded irq field from the sunxi_nfc struct
>  - fixed several memory leaks
>  - reworked the NFC reset code (to avoid potential garbage config from the
>    bootloader)
>  - made use of ECC_EXCEPTION flag to prevent erased page from generating
>    ECC errors
>  - changed the OOB layout for HW ECC scheme
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - merge HW ECC implementation in base implementation patch
>  - fix timing config when interfacing with an ONFI compatible chip
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - add HW ECC support
>  - rework NAND timings retrieval (use ONFI timing mode instead of raw timings)
>  - add nand-ecc-level property to specify NAND ECC requirements from DT
> 
> Boris BREZILLON (2):
>   mtd: nand: add sunxi NAND flash controller support
>   mtd: nand: add sunxi NFC dt bindings doc
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/sunxi-nand.txt         |   45 +
>  drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig                           |    6 +
>  drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile                          |    1 +
>  drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c                      | 1362 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 1414 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/sunxi-nand.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c
>