These commands should work around various "hardware" ECC and BCH methods.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.va...@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com>
Cc: Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de>
Cc: Detlev Zundel <d...@denx.de>
---
 common/cmd_nand.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 doc/README.nand   |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

V2: Add documentation.

diff --git a/common/cmd_nand.c b/common/cmd_nand.c
index 66e06a5..72d418c 100644
--- a/common/cmd_nand.c
+++ b/common/cmd_nand.c
@@ -606,6 +606,20 @@ int do_nand(cmd_tbl_t * cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * 
const argv[])
                                ret = nand->read_oob(nand, off, &ops);
                        else
                                ret = nand->write_oob(nand, off, &ops);
+               } else if (!strcmp(s, ".raw")) {
+                       /* Raw access */
+                       mtd_oob_ops_t ops = {
+                               .datbuf = (u8 *)addr,
+                               .oobbuf = ((u8 *)addr) + nand->writesize,
+                               .len = nand->writesize,
+                               .ooblen = nand->oobsize,
+                               .mode = MTD_OOB_RAW
+                       };
+
+                       if (read)
+                               ret = nand->read_oob(nand, off, &ops);
+                       else
+                               ret = nand->write_oob(nand, off, &ops);
                } else {
                        printf("Unknown nand command suffix '%s'.\n", s);
                        return 1;
@@ -695,10 +709,11 @@ U_BOOT_CMD(
        "NAND sub-system",
        "info - show available NAND devices\n"
        "nand device [dev] - show or set current device\n"
-       "nand read - addr off|partition size\n"
-       "nand write - addr off|partition size\n"
+       "nand read[.raw] - addr off|partition size\n"
+       "nand write[.raw] - addr off|partition size\n"
        "    read/write 'size' bytes starting at offset 'off'\n"
        "    to/from memory address 'addr', skipping bad blocks.\n"
+       "    Use read.raw/write.raw to avoid ECC and write the block as-is.\n"
 #ifdef CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS
        "nand write.trimffs - addr off|partition size\n"
        "    write 'size' bytes starting at offset 'off' from memory address\n"
diff --git a/doc/README.nand b/doc/README.nand
index 751b693..084223a 100644
--- a/doc/README.nand
+++ b/doc/README.nand
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ Commands:
       of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
       for bad blocks.
 
+   nand read.raw addr ofs|partition size
+      Read `size' bytes from `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This reads the raw
+      block, so ECC is avoided and the OOB area is read as well.
+
+   nand write.raw addr ofs|partition size
+      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash. This writes the 
raw
+      block, so ECC is avoided and the OOB area is written as well, making the
+      whole block written as-is.
+
 Configuration Options:
 
    CONFIG_CMD_NAND
-- 
1.7.5.4

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