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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/8] nand: Merge new implementation of 1-bit ECC from Linux nand driver
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:15:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAF01E8.4040709@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAE9311.8040907@aizo.com>

On 10/31/2011 07:22 AM, Christian Hitz wrote:
> Am 29.10.2011 00:30, schrieb Scott Wood:
>> On 10/12/2011 02:32 AM, Christian Hitz wrote:
>>> [backport from linux commit 02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe]
>>>
>>> This patch synchronizes the nand driver with the Linux 3.0 state.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Hitz <christian.hitz@aizo.com>
>>> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Adds 1416 bytes to the image size.
>>
>> What does this version of the code do that warrants the code size
>> increase?  This could break some SPLs.
>>
>> If it's just a speed issue, we probably want to stick with the current code.
> 
> It's the rewrite for performance and support for 512 byte pages, but this is
> on the basis of the rewritten code.

Several SPLs make use of nand_ecc.c, so NACK replacing it with a larger
implementation.

We could have the new ECC implementation available as a build-time
alternative, though.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12  7:31 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/8] nand: Merge BCH code from Linux nand driver Christian Hitz
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/8] nand: Add more NAND types " Christian Hitz
2012-01-10 23:24   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/8] nand: cleanup whitespace Christian Hitz
2012-01-10 23:25   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/8] nand: Merge changes from Linux nand driver Christian Hitz
2011-11-01 21:59   ` Scott Wood
2012-01-10 23:27   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/8] nand: Merge new implementation of 1-bit ECC " Christian Hitz
2011-10-28 22:30   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-31 12:22     ` Christian Hitz
2011-10-31 20:15       ` Scott Wood [this message]
2011-11-01  7:49         ` Christian Hitz
2011-11-01 20:30           ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/8] nand: Merge changes to BBT " Christian Hitz
2012-01-10 23:27   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/8] nand: Sanitize ONFI strings Christian Hitz
2012-01-10 23:28   ` Scott Wood
2011-10-12  7:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 8/8] nand: make 1-bit software ECC configurable Christian Hitz
2011-11-01 22:04   ` Scott Wood
2011-11-01 22:08     ` Scott Wood
2011-11-01 22:09       ` Scott Wood
2012-01-10 23:24 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/8] nand: Merge BCH code from Linux nand driver Scott Wood

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