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authorBen Dooks <ben-mtd@fluff.org>2008-04-15 06:36:19 -0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2008-04-22 16:39:16 -0400
commit71d54f3855b4ca98559e8782350336ec2433cc24 (patch)
tree3ea9c792bc9a4bfb2356648e1b719bd24fd03cc5 /Documentation/arm
parent0916083210039bf3d186a87522cc806dc21b7097 (diff)
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410 Large page NAND support
This adds support for using large page NAND devices with the S3C24XX NAND controller. This also adds the file Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/NAND.txt to describe the differences. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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1 S3C24XX NAND Support
2 ====================
3
4Introduction
5------------
6
7Small Page NAND
8---------------
9
10The driver uses a 512 byte (1 page) ECC code for this setup. The
11ECC code is not directly compatible with the default kernel ECC
12code, so the driver enforces its own OOB layout and ECC parameters
13
14Large Page NAND
15---------------
16
17The driver is capable of handling NAND flash with a 2KiB page
18size, with support for hardware ECC generation and correction.
19
20Unlike the 512byte page mode, the driver generates ECC data for
21each 256 byte block in an 2KiB page. This means that more than
22one error in a page can be rectified. It also means that the
23OOB layout remains the default kernel layout for these flashes.
24
25
26Document Author
27---------------
28
29Ben Dooks, Copyright 2007 Simtec Electronics
30
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt
index c31b76fa66c4..d04e1e30c47f 100644
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@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ NAND
156 controller. If there are any problems the latest linux-mtd 156 controller. If there are any problems the latest linux-mtd
157 code can be found from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ 157 code can be found from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
158 158
159 For more information see Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/NAND.txt
160
159 161
160Serial 162Serial
161------ 163------