Thomas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:08 PM > To: Narnakaje, Snehaprabha > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; davinci- > [email protected]; Paulraj, Sandeep > Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD-NAND: Changes to read_page APIs to support > NAND_ECC_HW_SYNDROME mode on TI DaVinci DM355 > > Sneha, > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > Would you please care to CC the still caring but admittedly lazy and > distracted maintainer on such patches ?
Who would that be? Is the list below correct? Steven J. Hill ([email protected]) Thomas Gleixner ([email protected]) David Woodhouse ([email protected]) > > > From: Sneha Narnakaje <[email protected]> > > > > The NAND controller on TI DaVinci DM355 supports NAND devices with large > page size (2K and 4K), but the HW ECC is handled for every 512byte > read/write chunks. The current HW_SYNDROME read_page/write_page APIs in > the NAND core (nand_base) use the "infix OOB" scheme. The core APIs > overwrite NAND manufacturer's bad block meta data, thus complicating the > jobs of non-Linux NAND programmers (end equipment manufacturering). These > APIs also imply ECC protection for the prepad bytes, causing nand > raw_write operations to fail. > > Please use proper line breaks. 523 characters do not fit into a > terminal. OK. Thanks Sneha > > Thanks, > > tglx > > _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
