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From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
To: Jon Povey <Jon.Povey@racelogic.co.uk>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Enric Balletbo i Serra <eballetbo@iseebcn.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Change ECC algorithm from userspace
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:40:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAA8683.4080202@parrot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70E876B0EA86DD4BAF101844BC814DFE0BF244FAD1@Cloud.RL.local>

Jon Povey a écrit :
> linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org wrote:
>> I want to be able to use 1-bit ECC for the first partition where I
>> save the loader binary and has to be accessed by the ROM boot but use
>> a 4-bit ECC for my rootfs partition.
>>
>> Does anyone have this same issue?
> 
> DM355 and DM365 has similar issues as the RBL expects a different OOB/ECC
> layout to Linux.
> 
>> What is the best approach to store data in a NAND device using
>> different ECC techniques?
> 
> What I have done is write a utility that calculates ECC and writes to
> the mtd device in RAW mode. So to rewrite the bootloader I take care of
> the ECC and layout at application level without changing the kernel.
>
Note that the kernel raw mode doesn't write the page in one time : it write data
and then ecc. This may cause problem with NOP1 nand.

see http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-August/031262.html


Matthieu
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28  9:42 [RFC] Change ECC algorithm from userspace Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-10-28 10:30 ` Matthieu CASTET
2011-10-28 11:10   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-10-28 11:51     ` Matthieu CASTET
2011-10-28 12:00       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-10-31  9:02   ` Florian Fainelli
2011-10-28 10:33 ` Jon Povey
2011-10-28 10:40   ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2011-10-28 11:13   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-11-01  4:18     ` DaVinci NAND writing utility release, was: " Jon Povey
2011-11-01 10:34       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-10-31  8:04   ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-10-28 10:43 ` Atlant Schmidt

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