On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +0530, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:40:04, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > From: Mark A. Greer <[email protected]>
> > 
> > The existing NAND infrastructure allows the default main and
> > mirror bad block tables to be overridden in nand_default_bbt().
> > However, the davinci_nand driver does not support this.  So,
> > add fields to the davinci driver's platform data so platform
> > code can pass in their own bbt's and make the driver honor
> > those overrides.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > This is required by the da830 evm (see following patch) which requires
> > different 'offs' and 'veroffs' values than the default.  This seemed
> > like the solution that fit best with the existing infratructure.  If
> > anyone has a better solution, please speak up.
> > 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Are you trying to align with the OOB layout being followed in U-Boot?

Yes.  That and to match what both TI and MV have been supporting for
quite a while.

> U-Boot for da830/omap-l137 is not in mainline yet. I am planning to
> start working on that shortly. We can re-visit this when da830/omap-l137
> support is present in u-boot.

Hmm, okay...

So what about all the platforms that are already out there?

Even if it changes, I'd recommend the driver patch [1/2] still go
in so that the functionality is there if/when its ever needed (and
its a really simple patch).  I can alway redo the platform patch [2/2].

Mark
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