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2012-11-26nand: Add torture featureBenoît Thébaudeau
This patch adds a NAND Flash torture feature, which is useful as a block stress test to determine if a block is still good and reliable (or should be marked as bad), e.g. after a write error. This code is ported from mtd-utils' lib/libmtd.c. Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> [scottwood@freescale.com: removed unnec. ifdef and unwrapped error strings] Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2012-09-17nand: Add support for unlock.invertJoe Hershberger
NAND unlock command allows an invert bit to be set to unlock all but the selected page range. Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com> [scottwood@freescale.com: updated docs and added comment about invert bit] Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2012-05-18nand: extend .raw accesses to work on multiple pagesScott Wood
A use for this is to read, modify, erase, and write an entire block as a single unit, as a replacement for the biterr command. This way gives more flexibility in that you can also test multiple bit errors, errors in the ECC, etc. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2012-01-26nand: Introduce CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INITScott Wood
This allows a driver to run code between nand_scan_ident() and nand_scan_tail(), among other things. See the additions to doc/README.nand for details. To allow a gradual transition, Boards that don't set CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT will still be initialized the old way, but new drivers should not require this, and existing drivers should be converted when convenient. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2011-10-03NAND: Add nand read.raw and write.raw commandsMarek Vasut
These commands should work around various "hardware" ECC and BCH methods. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Cc: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> [scottwood@freescale.com: s/write the page/access the page/] Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2011-07-01cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs commandBen Gardiner
Add another nand write. variant, trimffs. This command will request of nand_write_skip_bad() that all trailing all-0xff pages will be dropped from eraseblocks when they are written to flash as-per the reccommended behaviour of the UBI FAQ [1]. The function that implements this timming is the drop_ffs() function by Artem Bityutskiy, ported from the mtd-utils tree. [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> CC: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2009-07-16Remove legacy NAND and disk on chip code.Scott Wood
Legacy NAND had been scheduled for removal. Any boards that use this were already not building in the previous release due to an #error. The disk on chip code in common/cmd_doc.c relies on legacy NAND, and it has also been removed. There is newer disk on chip code in drivers/mtd/nand; someone with access to hardware and sufficient time and motivation can try to get that working, but for now disk on chip is not supported. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2009-07-07davinci_nand: cleanup II (CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC)David Brownell
Remove CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC option. It's not just nasty; it's also unused by any current boards, and doesn't even match the main U-Boot distributions from TI (which use soft ECC, or 4-bit ECC on newer chips that support it). DaVinci GIT kernels since 2.6.24, and mainline Linux since 2.6.30, match non-BROKEN code paths for 1-bit HW ECC. The BROKEN code paths do seem to partially match what MontaVista/TI kernels (4.0/2.6.10, and 5.0/2.6.18) do ... but only for small pages. Large page support is really broken (and it's unclear just what software it was trying to match!), and the ECC layout was making three more bytes available for use by filesystem (or whatever) code. Since this option itself seems broken, remove it. Add a comment about the MV/TI compat issue, and the most straightforward way to address it (should someone really need to solve it). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2009-04-03Noisily disable the legacy NAND subsystem.Scott Wood
Legacy NAND is marked for feature removal after April 2009 (i.e. this upcoming release). There are still several boards that reference it (though many do so only for disk-on-chip support which has been silently disabled for a while now). These boards will now fail to build with #error, though the code is still there if the user removes #error. The plan is to remove the code outright in the next release, along with any board code that refers to it (such as board/esd/common/auto_update.c). Also, remove the legacy NAND API description from README.nand. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2009-01-23NAND: rename NAND_MAX_CHIPS to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_CHIPSWolfgang Grandegger
This patch renames NAND_MAX_CHIPS to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_CHIPS and changes the default from 8 to 1 for the legacy and the new MTD NAND layer. This allows to remove all NAND_MAX_CHIPS definitions in the board config files because none of the boards use multi chip support (NAND_MAX_CHIPS > 1) so far. The bamboo and the DU440 define #define NAND_MAX_CHIPS CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE but that's bogus and did not work anyhow. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2008-10-18rename CFG_ macros to CONFIG_SYSJean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
2008-09-10ARM DaVinci: Fix broken HW ECC for large page NAND.Hugo Villeneuve
Based on original patch by Bernard Blackham <bernard@largestprime.net> U-boot's HW ECC support for large page NAND on Davinci is completely broken. Some kernels, such as the 2.6.10 one supported by MontaVista for DaVinci, rely upon this broken behaviour as they share the same code for ECCs. In the existing scheme, error detection *might* work on large page, but error correction definitely does not. Small page ECC correction works, but the format is not compatible with the mainline git kernel. This patch adds ECC code that matches what is currently in the Davinci git repository (since NAND support was added in 2.6.24). This makes the ECC and OOB layout written by u-boot compatible with Linux for both small page and large page devices and fixes ECC correction for large page devices. The old behaviour can be restored by defining the macro CFG_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC, which is undefined by default. Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hugo.villeneuve@lyrtech.com> Acked-by: Sergey Kubushyn <ksi@koi8.net> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2008-08-13drivers/mtd/nand: Move conditional compilation to MakefileJean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
rename CFG_NAND_LEGACY to CONFIG_NAND_LEGACY Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
2008-08-12NAND: Always skip blocks on read/write/boot.Scott Wood
Use of the non-skipping versions was almost always (if not always) an error, and no valid use case has been identified. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2008-01-09fix various commentsMarcel Ziswiler
Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel@ziswiler.com>
2007-07-09Update README.* to reference new CONFIG_CMD_* names now.Jon Loeliger
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
2007-04-23Remove BOARDLIBS usage completelyStefan Roese
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2006-10-28[PATCH] NAND: Partition name support added to NAND subsystemStefan Roese
chpart, nboot and NAND subsystem related commands now accept also partition name to specify offset. Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2006-10-18Coding Style cleanup.Wolfgang Denk
2006-10-10* Several improvements to the new NAND subsystem:Stefan Roese
- JFFS2 related commands implemented in mtd-utils style - Support for bad blocks - Bad block testing commands - NAND lock commands Please take a look at doc/README.nand for more details Patch by Guido Classen, 10 Oct 2006
2006-03-06Minor code cleanupWolfgang Denk
2006-03-06Merge the new NAND code (testing-NAND brach); see doc/README.nandWolfgang Denk
Rewrite of NAND code based on what is in 2.6.12 Linux kernel Patch by Ladislav Michl, 29 Jun 2005 [Merge with /home/tur/nand/u-boot]
2003-06-27* Code cleanup:wdenk
- remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc. - split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c) * Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003: - major rework of command structure (work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)
2003-05-31* Patch by Marc Singer, 29 May 2003:wdenk
Fixed rarp boot method for IA32 and other little-endian CPUs. * Patch by Marc Singer, 28 May 2003: Added port I/O commands. * Patch by Matthew McClintock, 28 May 2003 - cpu/mpc824x/start.S: fix relocation code when booting from RAM - minor patches for utx8245 * Patch by Daniel Engström, 28 May 2003: x86 update * Patch by Dave Ellis, 9 May 2003 + 27 May 2003: add nand flash support to SXNI855T configuration fix/extend nand flash support: - fix 'nand erase' command so does not erase bad blocks - fix 'nand write' command so does not write to bad blocks - fix nand_probe() so handles no flash detected properly - add doc/README.nand - add .jffs2 and .oob options to nand read/write - add 'nand bad' command to list bad blocks - add 'clean' option to 'nand erase' to write JFFS2 clean markers - make NAND read/write faster * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 23 May 2003: Update for MPC8266ADS board