Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Add support for reading ooblayout from device tree

[Boris Brezillon]

On Sat, 12 May 2018 11:38:26 -0300
Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le sam. 12 mai 2018 Ã 10:42, Boris Brezillon 
> <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> a Ãcrit :
> > On Sat, 12 May 2018 08:55:40 -0300
> > Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >>  Hi Boris,
> >> 
> >>  Le 12 mai 2018 02:55, Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> >> a Ãcrit :  
> >>  >
> >>  > Hi Paul,
> >>  >
> >>  > On Fri, 11 May 2018 23:29:12 +0200
> >>  > Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>  >  
> >>  > > By specifying the properties "mtd-oob-ecc" and "mtd-oob-free",   
> >> it is  
> >>  > > now possible to specify from devicetree where the ECC data is   
> >> located  
> >>  > > inside the OOB region.  
> >>  >
> >>  > Why would we want to do that? I mean, ECC/free regions are ECC
> >>  > controller dependent (and NAND chip dependent for the OOB size   
> >> part),  
> >>  > so there's no reason to describe it in the DT. And more   
> >> importantly,  
> >>  > people are likely to get it wrong.
> >>  >
> >>  > I'm curious, why do you need that?  
> >> 
> >>  Good question.
> >> 
> >>  The reason is that some SoCs have no ECC controller.
> >>  The various boards for these SoCs then all use a different layout.  
> > 
> > Okay. Still think defining the layouts in the DT is a bad idea. We
> > can add a jz4740 specific property to define the layout id
> > (ingenic,nand-oob-layout = <layout-id>), but not a generic way to
> > define custom layouts for all kind of NAND controller.  
> 
> Okay.
> 
> >> 
> >>  My motivation is to get rid of this (move it to devicetree):
> >>  
> >> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/mips/jz4740/board-qi_lb60.c#L93
> >>  And enable the support of other boards with custom OOB layouts.  
> > 
> > Can you list the different layouts you have? I'm pretty sure there's a
> > pattern. Maybe we can even deduce the layout from the page size or OOB
> > size.  
> 
> This is the other layout I have for another ingenic device:
> http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qi-kernel/source/tree/od-2011-09-18/arch/mips/jz4740/board-a320.c#L125
> 
> Page size and OOB size are the same between these two devices.

Indeed. Do you know if there are other kind of layouts in the wild?
Note that <layout-id> can be a string, so if each each board is
defining its own layout, you could specify the board name here.
Otherwise, if you just have those 2 patterns, you can just name them
"contiguous" and "interleaved".