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.
This is used by SoC platforms which do not have built-in ELM
hardware engine required for BCH ECC correction.
+ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
+ Indicates that NAND device has 16-bit wide data-bus. In absence of this
+ config, bus-width of NAND device is assumed to be either 8-bit and later
+ determined by reading ONFI params.
+ Above config is useful when NAND device's bus-width information cannot
+ be determined from on-chip ONFI params, like in following scenarios:
+ - SPL boot does not support reading of ONFI parameters. This is done to
+ keep SPL code foot-print small.
+ - In current U-Boot flow using nand_init(), driver initialization
+ happens in board_nand_init() which is called before any device probe
+ (nand_scan_ident + nand_scan_tail), thus device's ONFI parameters are
+ not available while configuring controller. So a static CONFIG_NAND_xx
+ is needed to know the device's bus-width in advance.
+ Some drivers using above config are:
+ drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
+ drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
+ drivers/mtd/nand/omap_gpmc.c
+
Platform specific options
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+ CONFIG_NAND_DENALI
+ Enables the denali.c driver.
+
+ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_DENALI_64BIT
+ Indicates that the Denali NAND controller is the 64-bit variant.
+
CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC
Enables omap_gpmc.c driver for OMAPx and AMxxxx platforms.
GPMC controller is used for parallel NAND flash devices, and can
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 = 64
+ ECC_BYTES = 26
+ 2 + (4096 / 512) * 26 = 210 < NAND_OOBSIZE
+ Thus BCH16 can be supported on 4K page NAND.
+
NOTE:
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