On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:17:10PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Given there's no public specification to this date, and in order > to capture some important details and singularities about the > controller let's document them once and for good. Made a few small tweaks for spelling and such (see the following diff) and pushed patches 5 through 14 to l2-mtd.git/next. Thanks, Brian diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt index 00e601c..840fd41 100644 --- a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt +++ b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pxa3xx-nand.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OOB, one per chunk read. So, in order to achieve reading (for instance), we issue several READ0 commands (with some additional controller-specific magic) and read two chunks of 2080B (2048 data + 32 spare) each. -The driver accomodates this data to expose the NAND core a contiguous buffer +The driver accommodates this data to expose the NAND core a contiguous buffer (4096 data + spare) or (4096 + spare + ECC + spare + ECC). ECC @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ an *entire* page. Factory bad blocks handling =========================== -Given the ECC BCH requires to layout the device's pages in a splitted +Given the ECC BCH requires to layout the device's pages in a split data/OOB/data/OOB way, the controller has a view of the flash page that's different from the specified (aka the manufacturer's) view. In other words, @@ -109,5 +109,5 @@ disabled by using the NAND_BBT_NO_OOB_BBM option in the driver. The rationale for this is that there's no point in marking a block as bad, because good blocks are also 'marked as bad' (in the OOB BBM sense) under normal usage. -Instead, the drive relies in the bad block table alone, and should only perform +Instead, the driver relies on the bad block table alone, and should only perform the bad block scan on the very first time (when the device hasn't been used). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
