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Re: [PATCH v12 2/5] mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: add hardware BCH-ECC support

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Pushed this patch to l2-mtd.git, as it looks pretty much good. Although,
I'd like raw read support...

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:06:34PM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
> This adds hardware ECC support using the BCH encoder in the NFC IP.
> The ECC encoder supports up to 32-bit correction by using 60 error
> correction bytes. There is no sub-page ECC step, ECC is calculated
> always accross the whole page (up to 2k pages).
> 
> Limitations:
> - HW ECC: Only 2K page with 64+ OOB.
> - HW ECC: Only 24 and 32-bit error correction implemented.
> 
> Raw writes have been tested using the generic nand_write_page_raw
> implementation. However, raw reads are currently not possible
> because the controller need to know whether we are going to use
> the ECC mode already at NAND_CMD_READ0 command time. At this point
> we do not have the information whether it is a raw read or a
> regular read at driver level...

Hmm, can you get this in ecc.read_page_raw()?
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Re: [PATCH v12 2/5] mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: add hardware BCH-ECC  support Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 23:00 +0200

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