Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/5] mtd: rawnand: add NVIDIA Tegra NAND Flash controller driver

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Thu May 24 2018 - 07:01:16 EST


Hi Benjamin,

On Thu, 24 May 2018 13:30:14 +0200
Benjamin Lindqvist <benjamin.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> It seems to me that a probe similar to what the BootROM does shouldn't
> be awfully complicated to implement - just cycle through the switch
> cases in case of an ECC error. But I guess that's more of an idea for
> further improvements rather than a comment to the patch set under
> review.

Nope, not really an option, because you're not guaranteed that the NAND
will be used as a boot media, and the first page or first set of pages
might just be erased.

>
> However, I think that allowing for an override of the oobsize
> inference would be a good idea before merging, no? This could just be
> a trivial #ifdef (at least temporarily). If you agree but don't feel
> like doing it yourself, I'd be happy to pitch in. Let me know.

That's why we have nand-ecc-xxx properties in the DT.

Regards,

Boris