Hi Randy, Thanks for the review. I will fix the below review comments in my next submission. Regards, Punnaiah On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/28/14 08:31, Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri wrote: >> Added notes about the controller and driver >> >> Signed-off-by: Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri <punnaia@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Changes in v4: >> - None >> --- >> Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..4deac94 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt >> @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ >> +This documents provides some notes about the ARM pl353 smc controller used in > > PL353 SMC > >> +Zynq SOC and confined to NAND specific details. > > and is confined to > >> + >> +Overview of the controller >> +========================== >> + The SMC (PL353) supports two memory interfaces: >> + Interface 0 type SRAM. >> + Interface 1 type NAND. >> + This configuration supports the following configurable options: >> + . 32-bit or 64-bit AXI data width >> + . 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit memory data width for interface 0 >> + . 8-bit, or 16-bit memory data width for interface 1 >> + . 1-4 chip selects on each interface >> + . SLC ECC block for interface 1 >> + >> +For more information, refer the below link for TRM > > refer to the below link for TRM. > >> +http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0380g/ >> +DDI0380G_smc_pl350_series_r2p1_trm.pdf >> + >> +NAND memory accesses >> +==================== >> + . Two phase NAND accesses >> + . NAND command phase transfers >> + . NAND data phase transfers >> + >> +Two phase NAND accesses >> + The SMC defines two phases of commands when transferring data to or from >> +NAND flash. >> + >> +Command phase >> + Commands and optional address information are written to the NAND flash. >> +The command and address can be associated with either a data phase operation to >> +write to or read from the array, or a status/ID register transfer. >> + >> +Data phase >> + Data is either written to or read from the NAND flash. This data can be either >> +data transferred to or from the array, or status/ID register information. >> + >> +NAND AXI address setup >> + AXI address Command phase Data phase >> + [31:24] Chip address Chip address >> + [23] NoOfAddCycles_2 Reserved >> + [22] NoOfAddCycles_1 Reserved >> + [21] NoOfAddCycles_0 ClearCS >> + [20] End command valid End command valid >> + [19] 0 1 >> + [18:11] End command End command >> + [10:3] Start command [10] ECC Last >> + [9:3] Reserved >> + [2:0] Reserved Reserved >> + >> +ECC >> +=== >> + It operates on a number of 512 byte blocks of NAND memory and can be > > 512-byte blocks > >> +programmed to store the ECC codes after the data in memory. For writes, >> +the ECC is written to the spare area of the page. For reads, the result of >> +a block ECC check are made available to the device driver. >> + >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> +| n * 512 blocks | extra | ecc | | > > ECC > >> +| | block | codes | | >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> + >> +The ECC calculation uses a simple Hamming code, using 1-bit correction 2-bit >> +detection. It starts when a valid read or write command with a 512 byte aligned > > 512-byte > >> +address is detected on the memory interface. >> + >> +Driver details >> +============== >> + The NAND driver has dependancy with the pl353_smc memory controller > > dependency PL353 SMC > >> +driver for intializing the nand timing parameters, bus width, ECC modes, > > initializing the NAND > >> +control and status information. >> + >> +Since the controller expects that the chipselect bit should be cleared for the >> +last data transfer i.e last 4 data bytes, the existing nandbase page > > transfer, > >> +read/write routines for soft ecc and ecc none modes will not work. So, inorder > > ECC and ECC in order > >> +to make this driver work, it always updates the ecc mode as HW ECC and > > ECC > >> +implemented the page read/write functions for supporting the SW ECC. > > implements > >> + >> +HW ECC mode: >> + Upto 2K page size is supported and beyond that it retuns > > Up to returns > >> +-ENOSUPPORT error. If the flsh has ONDIE ecc controller then the > > flash ECC > >> +priority has given to the ONDIE ecc controller. Also the current > > is given ECC > >> +implementation has support for upto 64 byte oob area > > up to 64-byte OOB area. > >> + >> +SW ECC mode: >> + It supports all the pgae sizes. But since, zynq soc bootrom uses > > page sizes, but since Zynq SOC boot ROM > >> +HW ECC for the devices that have pgae size <=2K so, to avoid any ecc related > > page size <= 2K, to avoid any ECC-related > >> +issues during boot, prefer HW ECC over SW ECC. >> + >> +For devicetree binding information please refer the below dt binding file > > refer to the below > >> +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/pl353-smc.txt >> > > > -- > ~Randy -- 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
