On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:00:04AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > 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. > The below diff looks ok. I had to rework a few patches after the completion patch rework, and I'm running some tests. I'll submit the series as soon as the tests are done. > 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). -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- 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
