Hi,

Huang Shijie wrote:

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:50:17AM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:

quoted

With a flash-based BBT there is no reason to move the Factory Bad
Block Marker from the data area buffer (to where it is mapped by the
GPMI NAND controller) to the OOB buffer. Thus, make this feature
configurable via DT. This is required for the Ka-Ro electronics
platforms.

Signed-off-by: Lothar Wa?mann <redacted>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt |    3 +++
 drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c              |   10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
index 458d596..f28949a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Optional properties:
                        discoverable or this property is not enabled,
                        the software may chooses an implementation-defined
                        ECC scheme.
+  - fsl,no-blockmark-swap: Don't swap the bad block marker from the OOB
+                       area with the byte in the data area but rely on the
+                       BBT for identifying bad blocks.

Please add the following:
       "NOTE: This property is not supported by the imx23 and imx28"

I don't see why this should not be supported on i.MX28 (i.MX23 doesn't
do byteswapping anyway, so this wouldn't change anything for i.MX23).
The partitions used by Linux need not necessarily be accessible for the
Boot ROM code (and vice versa).

quoted

 The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the
 address space. See partition.txt for more detail.

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
index bb77f75..98562eb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c

@@ -1632,9 +1632,6 @@ static int gpmi_init_last(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
 	struct bch_geometry *bch_geo = &this->bch_geometry;
 	int ret;
 
-	/* Set up swap_block_mark, must be set before the gpmi_set_geometry() */
-	this->swap_block_mark = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this);
-
 	/* Set up the medium geometry */
 	ret = gpmi_set_geometry(this);
 	if (ret)

@@ -1701,6 +1698,13 @@ static int gpmi_nand_init(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
 	if (of_get_nand_on_flash_bbt(this->dev->of_node))
 		chip->bbt_options |= NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH | NAND_BBT_NO_OOB;
 
+	/* Set up swap_block_mark, must be set before the gpmi_set_geometry() */
+	if (!of_property_read_bool(this->dev->of_node, "fsl,no-blockmark-swap"))
+		this->swap_block_mark = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this);

the code should like this:
----------------------------------------------
	this->swap_block_mark = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this);

	if (!GPMI_IS_IMX23(this) && !GPMI_IS_MX28(this) &&

the !GPMI_IS_MX23() is redundant here as i.MX23 will always have
swap_block_mark == false.
I would rather add a dependency on nand-on-flash-bbt as a
prerequisite for not checking the BB marks in each block.

quoted

+
+	dev_dbg(this->dev, "Blockmark swapping %sabled\n",
+		this->swap_block_mark ? "en" : "dis");
+
 	/*
 	 * Allocate a temporary DMA buffer for reading ID in the
 	 * nand_scan_ident().

There are some bugs in the gpmi driver which is caused by the assumption that
we always enable the swapping except the imx23. 

So, there are some places should be changed with this patch:
   [1] the subpage hook,
        Please also change the gpmi_ecc_read_subpage() too.

   [2] the OOB hook,
   	Please also change the gpmi_ecc_read_oob(). 

   [3] the markbad hook,
   	Please also change the gpmi_block_markbad() . 

OK, I'll check that.


Lothar Wa?mann
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