[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] NAND: Allow per-buffer allocation

Marek Vasut
2011-09-22T08:51:33Z

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 09:41:21 AM Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 09/21/2011 10:16 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Stefano & Marek,
> >
> > can you please provide the requested information?
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> > In message <4E7A4145.30501@freescale.com> Scott Wood wrote:
> >>> In message <4E7A320D.1030002@freescale.com> you wrote:
> >>>> Is this hardware going to be supported in Linux? It would be nice if
> >>>> we could keep this code in sync.
> >>>
> >>> Stefano has submitted patches for the iMX28 based M28 / M28EVK board,
> >>> so yes, this hardware going to be supported in mainline Linux, too.
> >>
> >> How do the Linux iMX28 patches deal with NAND_OWN_BUFFERS?
> >>
> >> I'd like to see this change be submitted to Linux first, or else have an
> >> explanation of why a divergence for U-Boot is warranted.
>
> I tested NAND with the gpmi-nand patches sent to linux-arm by Huang Shije:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg139526.html
>
> However, I have not seen the option NAND_OWN_BUFFERS in his patches.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano

Like I said, this patch is not needed anymore. It's just a convenience measure
now. I don't need to for mx28.