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

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On Thu, 24 May 2018 13:00:41 +0200
Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > Note that we're in fact using this patch set in Linux today, but
> > we had to remove the oobsize inference part. Currently we're
> > simply hard coding it to CFG_TVAL_4, but maybe it would be
> > cleaner to add ECC algo as a board config instead, e.g. in the
> > .dts file or whatever. This seems to be done by other vendors
> > already, see for example excerpt of
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt below:
> > 
> >  - ti,nand-ecc-opt: A string setting the ECC layout to use. One of:
> > "sw" 1-bit Hamming ecc code via software
> > "hw" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> > "hw-romcode" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> > "ham1" 1-bit Hamming ecc code
> > "bch4" 4-bit BCH ecc code
> > "bch8" 8-bit BCH ecc code
> > "bch16" 16-bit BCH ECC code
> > Refer below "How to select correct ECC scheme for your device ?"
> > 
> > It seems as if this method would be equally applicable to Tegra NAND.  
> 
> Yeah, ideally we can reuse "nand-ecc-algo". Although, Reed-Solomon is
> not yet in the list.  So using this property would require to extend
> this standard property.

I'm okay with that ;-).
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