RE: [LINUX PATCH v8 1/2] Documentation: nand: pl353: Add documentation for controller and driver
From: Naga Sureshkumar Relli
Date: Thu Mar 22 2018 - 00:28:09 EST
Hi Randy,
Thanks for reviewing the patch.
I will address below mentioned comments in next version of patch.
Thanks,
Naga Sureshkumar Relli.
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> Subject: Re: [LINUX PATCH v8 1/2] Documentation: nand: pl353: Add
> documentation for controller and driver
>
> On 03/14/2018 03:48 AM, nagasureshkumarrelli@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Added notes about the controller and driver
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Hi,
>
> > ---
> > Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt | 92
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt
> > b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..ac6fbd5
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
> > +This documents provides some notes about the ARM pl353 smc controller
> > +used in
>
> s/smc/SMC/
>
> > +Zynq SOC and confined to NAND specific details.
> > +
> > +Overview of the controller
> > +==========================
> > + The SMC (PL353) supports two memory interfaces:
> > + Interface 0 type SRAM.
> > + Interface 1 type NAND.
> > + This configuration supports the following configurable options:
> > + . 32-bit or 64-bit AXI data width
> > + . 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit memory data width for interface 0
> > + . 8-bit, or 16-bit memory data width for interface 1
> > + . 1-4 chip selects on each interface
> > + . SLC ECC block for interface 1
> > +
> > +For more information, refer the below link for TRM
> > +http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0380g/
> > +DDI0380G_smc_pl350_series_r2p1_trm.pdf
> > +
> > +NAND memory accesses
> > +====================
> > + . Two phase NAND accesses
> > + . NAND command phase transfers
> > + . NAND data phase transfers
> > +
> > +Two phase NAND accesses
> > + The SMC defines two phases of commands when transferring data to or
> > +from NAND flash.
> > +
> > +Command phase
> > + Commands and optional address information are written to the NAND
> flash.
> > +The command and address can be associated with either a data phase
> > +operation to write to or read from the array, or a status/ID register transfer.
> > +
> > +Data phase
> > + Data is either written to or read from the NAND flash. This data can
> > +be either data transferred to or from the array, or status/ID register
> information.
> > +
> > +NAND AXI address setup
> > + AXI address Command phase Data phase
> > + [31:24] Chip address Chip address
> > + [23] NoOfAddCycles_2 Reserved
> > + [22] NoOfAddCycles_1 Reserved
> > + [21] NoOfAddCycles_0 ClearCS
> > + [20] End command valid End command valid
> > + [19] 0 1
> > + [18:11] End command End command
> > + [10:3] Start command [10] ECC Last
> > + [9:3] Reserved
> > + [2:0] Reserved Reserved
> > +
> > +ECC
> > +===
> > + It operates on a number of 512 byte blocks of NAND memory and can
> > +be programmed to store the ECC codes after the data in memory. For
> > +writes, the ECC is written to the spare area of the page. For reads,
> > +the result of a block ECC check are made available to the device driver.
> > +
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +---
> > +| n * 512 blocks | extra | ecc | |
> > +| | block | codes | |
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > +---
> > +
> > +The ECC calculation uses a simple Hamming code, using 1-bit
> > +correction 2-bit detection. It starts when a valid read or write
> > +command with a 512 byte aligned address is detected on the memory
> interface.
> > +
> > +Driver details
> > +==============
> > + The NAND driver has dependency with the pl353_smc memory
> controller
> > +driver for intializing the nand timing parameters, bus width, ECC
> > +modes,
>
> initializing the NAND
>
> > +control and status information.
> > +
> > +Since the controller expects that the chipselect bit should be
> > +cleared for the last data transfer i.e last 4 data bytes, the
> > +existing nandbase page read/write routines for soft ecc and ecc none
> > +modes will not work. So, inorder
>
> in order
>
> > +to make this driver work, it always updates the ecc mode as HW ECC
> > +and
>
> ECC mode
>
> > +implemented the page read/write functions for supporting the SW ECC.
>
> implements the
>
> > +
> > +HW ECC mode:
> > + Upto 2K page size is supported and beyond that it retuns
>
> Up to returns
>
> > +-ENOSUPPORT error. If the flsh has ONDIE ecc controller then the
>
> flash (?) has on-die ECC
>
> > +priority has given to the ONDIE ecc controller. Also the current
>
> is on-die ECC
>
> > +implementation has support for upto 64 byte oob area
>
> up to area.
>
> > +
> > +SW ECC mode:
> > + It supports all the pgae sizes. But since, zynq soc bootrom uses
>
> Zynq SOC
>
> > +HW ECC for the devices that have pgae size <=2K so, to avoid any ecc
> > +related
>
> page <= 2K, to avoid any ECC-related
>
> > +issues during boot, prefer HW ECC over SW ECC.
> > +
> > +For devicetree binding information please refer the below dt binding
> > +file
>
> please refer to the below
>
> > +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/pl353-smc.txt.
> >
>
>
> --
> ~Randy