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From: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:23:39 +0400
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] omap_gpmc: use SOFTECC in SPL if it's
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Hi Simon,

On 20.10.2011 16:00, Simon Schwarz wrote:
>> Use software ECC for the SPL build if support for software ECC in SPL is
>> enabled.
> 
> I'am curious: Is there a special reason for having software ecc in SPL?

Well, yes. On OMAP2+ ECC mode defaults to software (incompatible with HW
mode; 256 vs 512 bytes block size) both in U-Boot and Linux (U-Boot has
command to change it while in Linux you have to recompile the kernel).

So we need software ecc to read images written from Linux.

Regards, Ilya.