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

Marek Vasut
2011-09-24T12:37:53Z

On Friday, September 23, 2011 07:35:15 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> On 09/22/2011 03:51 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Let's hold off on this patch until it's actually needed, then.

Very well then, mind merging the rest then ?

Cheers
>
> -Scott