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

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Scott Wood wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I recently got the Linux version of the driver merged; the newer Linux
> NAND subsystem code doesn't need all of the previous patches I sent for
> u-boot, though if you're basing off of 2.6.22 you'll need a couple
> patches that went in more recently than that (78b65179 Don't panic...
> and 1c45f604 Fix misparenthesization...).

Patches welcome. :)

> >> What's about the current state of NAND-Flash Support for MPC831x in
> >> U-Boot using the FCM concerning:
> >> - Read/Write/Erase Access
>
> I'll try to get a new patch for this out soon.

Thanks.

> >> - Booting from NAND
>
> There's an un-cleaned-up patch from the BSP sitting around on my hard
> disk...  It's a rather intrusive patch (mostly due to the need to get
> RAM going with only 4K of code), so it'll need some looking over before
> I submit.

Please try to integrate such NAND booting stuff into the already existing 
nand_spl framework.

Best regards,
Stefan

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