[U-Boot-Users] Question about NAND-Flash Support on MPC831x

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Jens Gehrlein wrote:
> on 2007-05-16 16:28:05 GMT, Scott Wood submitted a patch with the subject:
> "[PATCH 2/2] NAND: Add mpc831x support."
>
> I can't find this patch in any repository. Even, there wasn't any reply
> to his e-mail.
>
> Was the patch rejected?

Yes it was rejected. IIRC, there were some issues with a new "interface" that 
was introduced to the NAND subsystem here (transparent hardware ECC). At that 
time such an "interface" was not supported in Linux either. Not sure what the 
current status here is.

Scott, whats the current status? Has this support now been included to Linux 
meanwhile? How should we continue here? Do you plan on resubmitting patches 
for FSL NAND support? Please keep in mind that we still plan to switch to the 
new U-Boot NAND subsystem rewrite done a few months ago, based on the Linux 
2.6.22 MTD sources.

> What's about the current state of NAND-Flash Support for MPC831x in
> U-Boot using the FCM concerning:
> - Read/Write/Erase Access
> - Booting from NAND

No idea. Scott?

Best regards,
Stefan

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