From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:29:16 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/7] mtd: nand: add driver for diskonchip g4 nand flash In-Reply-To: <201304112119.37446.marex@denx.de> (from marex@denx.de on Thu Apr 11 14:19:37 2013) Message-ID: <1365784156.3640.21@snotra> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 04/11/2013 02:19:37 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Mike Dunn, > > > This patch adds a driver for the diskonchip G4 nand flash device. > It is > > based on the driver from the linux kernel. > > > > This also includes a separate SPL driver. A separate SPL driver is > used > > because the device operates in a different mode (reliable mode) when > > loading a boot image, and also because the storage format of the > boot > > image is different from normal data (pages are stored > redundantly). The > > SPL driver basically mimics how a typical IPL reads data from the > device. > > The special operating mode and storage format are used to > compensate for > > the fact that the IPL does not contain the BCH ecc decoding > algorithm (due > > to size constraints). Although the u-boot SPL *could* use ecc, it > > operates like an IPL for the sake of simplicity and uniformity, > since the > > IPL and SPL share the task of loading the u-boot image. As a side > benefit, > > the SPL driver is very small. > > > > [port from linux kernel 3.4 commit > > 570469f3bde7f71cc1ece07a18d54a05b6a8775d] > > Scott, this really is your turf. I already acked it (it's up to Mike what he wants to do with dbg). Feel free to pick it up as part of the larger patchset -- it's a dependency for patch 7/7 that adds the board support. -Scott