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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Bie=DFmann?= <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:25:23 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/8] omap_gpmc: BCH8 support (ELM based)
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Dear Ilya Yanok,

On 07.11.2012 00:06, Ilya Yanok wrote:
> From: Mansoor Ahamed <mansoor.ahamed@ti.com>
> 
> This patch adds support for BCH8 error correction code to omap_gpmc
> driver. We use GPMC to generate codes/syndromes but we need ELM to find
> error locations from given syndrome.
> 

first of all, I wonder why this is so different than the kernel
implementation for BCH. I mean the API (and content) of this and commit
8d602cf50d3bba864bc1438f486b626df69c87b3 mainline linux seems to differ.
The main question coming to mind is: Is the resulting OOB layout
compatible then?

Best regards

Andreas Bie?mann