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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] mtd: vf610_nfc: support subpage write
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:36:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428093403.22867.347.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428086445-10554-4-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch>

On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 20:40 +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> Support subpage writes using a custom implementation of write_subpage.
> The driver loads the page into SRAM buffer using NAND_CMD_READ0, when
> the framework requests the NAND_CMD_SEQIN command. Then, the buffer is
> updated by the custom write_subpage implementation. Upon write, the
> controller calculates the hardware ECC across the whole page before
> programming the page.
> 
> This method saves transferring the whole page over the bus to the NFC
> IP, which would happen when using NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>

As previously discussed, please explain why subpage writes make sense
with this controller.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-03 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-03 18:40 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] mtd: vf610_nfc: use in-band bad block table Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 18:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] mtd: vf610_nfc: add Freescale NFC controller configs to Kconfig Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 20:30   ` Scott Wood
2015-04-03 20:42     ` Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 20:46       ` Scott Wood
2015-04-03 22:30         ` Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 22:47           ` Scott Wood
2015-04-03 18:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] mtd: vf610_nfc: add 32-error correction option for HW ECC Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 18:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] mtd: vf610_nfc: support subpage write Stefan Agner
2015-04-03 20:36   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2015-04-03 22:24     ` Stefan Agner
2015-04-07 13:48       ` Bill Pringlemeir
2015-04-07 16:21         ` Scott Wood

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