From: Amit Virdi <amit.virdi@st.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 2/4] mtd/NAND: Add FSMC driver support
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:51:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB4DF25.90900@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB3CF90.1000202@freescale.com>
>>>> + while (num_err--) {
>>>> + change_bit(0,&err_idx[i]);
>>>> + change_bit(1,&err_idx[i]);
>>>> +
>>>> + if (err_idx[i]< 512 * 8) {
>>>> + change_bit(err_idx[i], dat);
>>>> + i++;
>>>> + }
>>>> + }
>>>
>>> Is it normal to not count bit flips in the ECC itself?
>>>
>>
>> Correcting bit flip in ECC isn't of any use, so we skipped it.
>
> I think it is useful to report that the bit flip happened, so that the
> upper layers know when to scrub the page.
>
Ok. I'll add the number of bit flips of OOB while reporting the
corrected bits.
>> Otherwise also, the ECC and the data area are not contiguous here as
>> they are at different parts of RAM so we couldn't have done
>> if (err_idx[i]< (512+13) * 8) {
>> here.
>
> You could still increment the error count.
>
Yes.
Thanks
Amit Virdi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 7:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 0/4] mtd/NAND: Support for FSMC controller Amit Virdi
2012-05-07 7:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/4] ARM: Define change_bit routine Amit Virdi
2012-05-07 7:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 2/4] mtd/NAND: Add FSMC driver support Amit Virdi
2012-05-15 21:14 ` Scott Wood
2012-05-16 10:41 ` Amit Virdi
2012-05-16 11:05 ` Amit Virdi
2012-05-16 11:31 ` Amit Virdi
2012-05-16 16:02 ` Scott Wood
2012-05-17 11:21 ` Amit Virdi [this message]
2012-05-07 7:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 3/4] SPEAr: Configure FSMC driver for NAND interface Amit Virdi
2012-05-07 7:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/4] mtd/NAND: Remove obsolete SPEAr specific NAND drivers Amit Virdi
2012-05-07 8:19 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 0/4] mtd/NAND: Support for FSMC controller Stefan Roese
2012-05-14 13:49 ` Stefan Roese
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