Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mtd: nand: mxc_nand: support software ECC

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Thu May 16 2024 - 04:33:39 EST


Hi Sascha,

> > + /*
> > + * During a page write the i.MX NAND controller will read 512b from
> > + * main_area0 SRAM, then oob_per_subpage bytes from spare0 SRAM, then
> > + * 512b from main_area1 SRAM and so on until the full page is written.
> > + * For software ECC we want to have a 1:1 mapping between the raw page
> > + * data on the NAND chip and the view of the NAND core. This is
> > + * necessary to make the NAND_CMD_RNDOUT read the data it expects.
> > + * To accomplish this we have to write the data in the order the controller
> > + * reads it. This is reversed in copy_page_from_sram() below.
> > + */
> > + for (i = 0; i < no_subpages; i++) {
> > + memcpy16_toio(host->main_area0 + i * 512, buf, 512);
> > + buf += 512;
> > +
> > + memcpy16_toio(host->spare0 + i * host->devtype_data->spare_len, buf,
> > + oob_per_subpage);
> > + buf += oob_per_subpage;
> > + }
> > +}
>
> I noticed the nandbiterr test won't work with this. It needs the following
> fixup. The problem is that the core wants to write only user data
> without OOB, so we have to make sure the remaining SRAM is filled up
> with 0xff.

Yes. I looked rapidly at the diff, looks ok.

Thanks,
Miquèl