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Subject: Re: About the mxc nand driver
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On Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [...]
> The original Freescale driver uses this ecc layout for 8/16 bit busses:
>
> static struct nand_ecclayout nand_hw_eccoob_8 = {
> 	.eccbytes = 5,
> 	.eccpos = {6, 7, 8, 9, 10},
> 	.oobfree = {{0, 5}, {11, 5}}
> };

This one is bogus, as it describes an 8 byte OOB with more than 8 bytes... In 
the current driver this layout is used for soft ECC. Maybe this is the 
reason, why there wasn't any failure messages, because all people are using 
hardware ECC.

jbe

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