From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from TX2EHSOBE001.bigfish.com (tx2ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com [65.55.88.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.global.frontbridge.com", Issuer "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C691FB6EE8 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:25:08 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE2608B.4000103@freescale.com> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:24:59 -0600 From: Scott Wood MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v4] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to support large-page Nand chip References: <1323423775-26951-1-git-send-email-shuo.liu@freescale.com> <1323423775-26951-2-git-send-email-shuo.liu@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <1323423775-26951-2-git-send-email-shuo.liu@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 12/09/2011 03:42 AM, shuo.liu@freescale.com wrote: > From: Liu Shuo > > Freescale FCM controller has a 2K size limitation of buffer RAM. In order > to support the Nand flash chip whose page size is larger than 2K bytes, > we read/write 2k data repeatedly by issuing FIR_OP_RB/FIR_OP_WB and save > them to a large buffer. > > Signed-off-by: Liu Shuo > Signed-off-by: Shengzhou Liu > Signed-off-by: Li Yang > --- > v4 : allocate (8+1)k buffer for large page chip. > > drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c | 246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > 1 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) Again, I think we need to sort out the bad block migration first -- at least how we're going to mark the chip as having been migrated, so the driver can check for it. -Scott