Document new qcom,boot-partition binding used to apply special
read/write layout to boot partitions.
QCOM apply a special layout where spare data is not protected
by ECC for some special pages (used for boot partition). Add
Documentation on how to declare these special pages.
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom,nandc.yaml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom,nandc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom,nandc.yaml
index 84ad7ff30121..482a2c068740 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom,nandc.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom,nandc.yaml
@@ -102,6 +102,31 @@ allOf:
- const: rx
- const: cmd
+ - if:
+ properties:
+ compatible:
+ contains:
+ enum:
+ - qcom,ipq806x-nand
+
+ then:
+ properties:
+ qcom,boot-partitions:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-matrix
+ items:
+ items:
+ - description: offset
+ - description: size
+ description:
+ Boot partition use a different layout where the 4 bytes of spare
+ data are not protected by ECC. Use this to declare these special
+ partitions by defining first the offset and then the size.
+
+ It's in the form of <offset1 size1 offset2 size2 offset3 ...>
+ and should be declared in ascending order.
+
+ Refer to the ipq8064 example on how to use this special binding.
+
required:
- compatible
- reg
@@ -135,6 +160,8 @@ examples:
nand-ecc-strength = <4>;
nand-bus-width = <8>;
+ qcom,boot-partitions = <0x0 0x58a0000>;
+
partitions {
compatible = "fixed-partitions";
#address-cells = <1>;
--
2.36.1
