"Mark A. Greer" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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].

I'll apply 1/1 today.

Sudhakar, for 2/2, what's the reason to wait for u-boot support to go
upstream.  Is the u-boot support going to change?  If most folks are using
recent u-boot anyways, it seems that this should get merged as well. 

Kevin
 

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