On 11/07/2014 11:35 AM, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 08:03 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Roger Quadros <[email protected]> [141105 03:02]:
>>> In commit 7d5929c1f343 ("mtd: nand: omap: Revert to using software ECC by 
>>> default"),
>>> we switched back to using 1-bit SW ECC scheme by default. However
>>> commit b491da7233d5 ("mtd: nand: omap: clean-up ecc layout for BCH ecc 
>>> schemes")
>>> didn't take into account the 1-bit SW scheme (i.e. OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW)
>>> when checking for small page devices because it was already got rid of
>>> one commit earlier. Consider OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW while deciding
>>> if we can proceed with small page devices or not.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 7d5929c1f34 ("mtd: nand: omap: Revert to using software ECC by 
>>> default")
>>>
>>> Cc: <[email protected]>        [3.17+]
>>> Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
>>> index 3b357e9..758e594 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
>>> @@ -1742,7 +1742,8 @@ static int omap_nand_probe(struct platform_device 
>>> *pdev)
>>>     }
>>>  
>>>     /* check for small page devices */
>>> -   if ((mtd->oobsize < 64) && (pdata->ecc_opt != OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_HW)) {
>>> +   if ((mtd->oobsize < 64) && (pdata->ecc_opt != OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_HW) &&
>>> +       (pdata->ecc_opt != OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW)) {
>>>             dev_err(&info->pdev->dev, "small page devices are not 
>>> supported\n");
>>>             err = -EINVAL;
>>>             goto return_error;
>>
>> Should this maybe have || instead of && For the OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW?
> 
> The code is right.
> 
> there is a bug in omap3-ldp.dts.
> 
> there it says 
> ti,nand-ecc-opt = "bch8";
> 
> This is wrong. OMAP3 doesn't support bch8. I think you should use either 
> "ham1" or "sw"

Well I'm wrong about the OMAP3 information. OMAP3 does support BCH4 and BCH8 as 
well.

I'm don't thinkg small page check is right. For BCH8 we need 13 bytes per 512 
bytes.
In the LDP case we have page size:1024 and OOB size: 32.
Thus for BCH8 we need 26 bytes per page. which should fit in 32 bytes OOB.
So this check is bogus in that case.

Pekon,

can you please explain why you check for 64 bytes OOB size for all ECC schemes?

Tony,

The question for backward compatibility still remains. Even if OMAP3 supports 
bch8
do we stick to the scheme that was used in legacy boot or do we switch?

Then there is the question of boot rom compatibility. OMAP3 bootloaders use 
HAM1 scheme.
So if you want to be able to flash bootloader from the kernel we have to stick 
with HAM1.

changing the ECC scheme would mean that NAND filesystems created earlier won't 
work
and will have to be erased and recreated.

cheers,
-roger
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