Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: Support new Toshiba SLC

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:36 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Toshiba does not use ONFI for their NAND flash. So we have to continue
> to add new IDs used by Toshiba devices as well as heuristic detection
> for scanning the 2nd page for a BBM. This is a relatively harmless
> start at supporting many of them.
> 
> These chips mostly follow the same ID fields of previous generations,
> but there is a need for a few tweaks:
> 
> * These chips introduce a strange 576 byte OOB (that's 36 bytes per
>   512 bytes of page). In the preliminary data, Toshiba has not
>   defined exactly how their ID strings should decode. In the future,
>   a new tweak must be added.
> * NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE and NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE should be increased soon.
> 
> Data is taken from, among others, Toshiba TC58TxG4S2FBAxx
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <norris@broadcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    5 +++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ids.c  |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Pushed both patches to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master, but in reverse order,
which seems to be more logical.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)