+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
NAND FLASH commands and notes
See NOTE below!!!
# (C) Copyright 2003
# Dave Ellis, SIXNET, dge@sixnetio.com
#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
Commands:
Configuration Options:
+ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
+ NAND Offset from where SPL will read u-boot image. This is the starting
+ address of u-boot MTD partition in NAND.
+
CONFIG_CMD_NAND
- Enables NAND support and commmands.
+ Enables NAND support and commands.
CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE
Enables the torture command (see description of this command below).
- CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2
- Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in
- the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system.
- CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_YAFFS would be another useful choice for
- someone to implement.
-
CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE
The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
The maximum number of NAND chips per device to be supported.
CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT
- Traditionally, glue code in drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c has driven
+ Traditionally, glue code in drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand.c has driven
the initialization process -- it provides the mtd and nand
structs, calls a board init function for a specific device,
calls nand_scan(), and registers with mtd.
run code between nand_scan_ident() and nand_scan_tail(), or other
deviations from the "normal" flow.
- If a board defines CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT, drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c
+ If a board defines CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT, drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand.c
will make one call to board_nand_init(), with no arguments. That
function is responsible for calling a driver init function for
each NAND device on the board, that performs all initialization
Example of new init to be added to the end of an existing driver
init:
- /*
- * devnum is the device number to be used in nand commands
- * and in mtd->name. Must be less than
- * CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_DEVICE.
- */
- mtd = &nand_info[devnum];
-
/* chip is struct nand_chip, and is now provided by the driver. */
- mtd->priv = &chip;
+ mtd = nand_to_mtd(&chip);
/*
* Fill in appropriate values if this driver uses these fields,
if (nand_scan_tail(mtd))
error out
- if (nand_register(devnum))
+ /*
+ * devnum is the device number to be used in nand commands
+ * and in mtd->name. Must be less than CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE.
+ */
+ if (nand_register(devnum, mtd))
error out
In addition to providing more flexibility to the driver, it reduces
And fetching device parameters flashed on device, by parsing
ONFI parameter page.
- CONFIG_BCH
- Enables software based BCH ECC algorithm present in lib/bch.c
- This is used by SoC platforms which do not have built-in ELM
- hardware engine required for BCH ECC correction.
-
-
Platform specific options
=========================
CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC
detection. However ECC calculation on such plaforms would still be
done by GPMC controller.
+ CONFIG_SPL_NAND_AM33XX_BCH
+ Enables SPL-NAND driver (am335x_spl_bch.c) which supports ELM based
+ hardware ECC correction. This is useful for platforms which have ELM
+ hardware engine and use NAND boot mode.
+ Some legacy platforms like OMAP3xx do not have in-built ELM h/w engine,
+ so those platforms should use CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE for enabling
+ SPL-NAND driver with software ECC correction support.
+
CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_ECCSCHEME
On OMAP platforms, this CONFIG specifies NAND ECC scheme.
It can take following values:
8-bit BCH code with
- ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine,
- error detection using ELM hardware engine.
+ OMAP_ECC_BCH16_CODE_HW
+ 16-bit BCH code with
+ - ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine,
+ - error detection using ELM hardware engine.
+
+ How to select ECC scheme on OMAP and AMxx platforms ?
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Though higher ECC schemes have more capability to detect and correct
+ bit-flips, but still selection of ECC scheme is dependent on following
+ - hardware engines present in SoC.
+ Some legacy OMAP SoC do not have ELM h/w engine thus such
+ SoC cannot support BCHx_HW ECC schemes.
+ - size of OOB/Spare region
+ With higher ECC schemes, more OOB/Spare area is required to
+ store ECC. So choice of ECC scheme is limited by NAND oobsize.
+
+ In general following expression can help:
+ NAND_OOBSIZE >= 2 + (NAND_PAGESIZE / 512) * ECC_BYTES
+ where
+ NAND_OOBSIZE = number of bytes available in
+ OOB/spare area per NAND page.
+ NAND_PAGESIZE = bytes in main-area of NAND page.
+ ECC_BYTES = number of ECC bytes generated to
+ protect 512 bytes of data, which is:
+ 3 for HAM1_xx ecc schemes
+ 7 for BCH4_xx ecc schemes
+ 14 for BCH8_xx ecc schemes
+ 26 for BCH16_xx ecc schemes
+
+ example to check for BCH16 on 2K page NAND
+ NAND_PAGESIZE = 2048
+ NAND_OOBSIZE = 64
+ 2 + (2048 / 512) * 26 = 106 > NAND_OOBSIZE
+ Thus BCH16 cannot be supported on 2K page NAND.
+
+ However, for 4K pagesize NAND
+ NAND_PAGESIZE = 4096
+ NAND_OOBSIZE = 224
+ ECC_BYTES = 26
+ 2 + (4096 / 512) * 26 = 210 < NAND_OOBSIZE
+ Thus BCH16 can be supported on 4K page NAND.
+
+
+ CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC_PREFETCH
+ On OMAP platforms that use the GPMC controller
+ (CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC_PREFETCH), this options enables the code that
+ uses the prefetch mode to speed up read operations.
NOTE:
=====
-The current NAND implementation is based on what is in recent
-Linux kernels. The old legacy implementation has been removed.
-
-If you have board code which used CONFIG_NAND_LEGACY, you'll need
-to convert to the current NAND interface for it to continue to work.
-
The Disk On Chip driver is currently broken and has been for some time.
-There is a driver in drivers/mtd/nand, taken from Linux, that works with
+There is a driver in drivers/mtd/nand/raw, taken from Linux, that works with
the current NAND system but has not yet been adapted to the u-boot
environment.
DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only
to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command.
- "torture offset"
+ "torture offset [size]"
Torture block to determine if it is still reliable.
Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE configuration option.
This command returns 0 if the block is still reliable, else 1.
automate actions following a nand->write() error. This would e.g. be required
in order to program or update safely firmware to NAND, especially for the UBI
part of such firmware.
+ Optionally, a second parameter size can be given to test multiple blocks with
+ one call. If size is not a multiple of the NAND's erase size, then the block
+ that contains offset + size will be tested in full. If used with size, this
+ command returns 0 if all tested blocks have been found reliable, else 1.
NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin)
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