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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mtd: nand: Fixes and improvements on pxa3xx
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Hi,

(adding Eric Miao in Cc)

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:15:20AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> The Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC include a NAND controller (NFCv2) that
> is similar to the one in PXA SoC. Therefore, it should be possible to support
> Armada NAND using pxa3xx-nand driver.
> 
> While this effort is not ready yet, here is a set of patches that are needed
> for such work.
> 
> A small summary of the patches:
> 
>   * 1/5 is a fix for a 2-year regression that removed DMA support.
> 
>   * 2/5 and 3/5 are needed to build the driver on platforms other PXA.
> 
>   * 4/5 and 5/5 add ONFI-compliant device detection and are needed
>     to successfully probe newer flash devices.
> 

Since this patch affects directly the PXA hardware, I'd like to have some
response from PXA maintainers.

Guys, could you take a look at this?

Thanks a lot,
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com