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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-quadspi.txt | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/pxa3xx-nand.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt | 62 |
5 files changed, 152 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-quadspi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-quadspi.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..823d13412195 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/fsl-quadspi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +* Freescale Quad Serial Peripheral Interface(QuadSPI) + +Required properties: + - compatible : Should be "fsl,vf610-qspi" + - reg : the first contains the register location and length, + the second contains the memory mapping address and length + - reg-names: Should contain the reg names "QuadSPI" and "QuadSPI-memory" + - interrupts : Should contain the interrupt for the device + - clocks : The clocks needed by the QuadSPI controller + - clock-names : the name of the clocks + +Optional properties: + - fsl,qspi-has-second-chip: The controller has two buses, bus A and bus B. + Each bus can be connected with two NOR flashes. + Most of the time, each bus only has one NOR flash + connected, this is the default case. + But if there are two NOR flashes connected to the + bus, you should enable this property. + (Please check the board's schematic.) + +Example: + +qspi0: quadspi@40044000 { + compatible = "fsl,vf610-qspi"; + reg = <0x40044000 0x1000>, <0x20000000 0x10000000>; + reg-names = "QuadSPI", "QuadSPI-memory"; + interrupts = <0 24 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; + clocks = <&clks VF610_CLK_QSPI0_EN>, + <&clks VF610_CLK_QSPI0>; + clock-names = "qspi_en", "qspi"; + + flash0: s25fl128s@0 { + .... + }; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt index eb05255b6788..65f4f7c43136 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmc-nand.txt @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Optional properties: "ham1" 1-bit Hamming ecc code "bch4" 4-bit BCH ecc code "bch8" 8-bit BCH ecc code + "bch16" 16-bit BCH ECC code + Refer below "How to select correct ECC scheme for your device ?" - ti,nand-xfer-type: A string setting the data transfer type. One of: @@ -90,3 +92,46 @@ Example for an AM33xx board: }; }; +How to select correct ECC scheme for your device ? +-------------------------------------------------- +Higher ECC scheme usually means better protection against bit-flips and +increased system lifetime. However, selection of ECC scheme is dependent +on various other factors also like; + +(1) support of built in hardware engines. + Some legacy OMAP SoC do not have ELM harware engine, so those SoC cannot + support ecc-schemes with hardware error-correction (BCHx_HW). However + such SoC can use ecc-schemes with software library for error-correction + (BCHx_HW_DETECTION_SW). The error correction capability with software + library remains equivalent to their hardware counter-part, but there is + slight CPU penalty when too many bit-flips are detected during reads. + +(2) Device parameters like OOBSIZE. + Other factor which governs the selection of ecc-scheme is oob-size. + Higher ECC schemes require more OOB/Spare area to store ECC syndrome, + so the device should have enough free bytes available its OOB/Spare + area to accomodate ECC for entire page. In general following expression + helps in determining if given device can accomodate ECC syndrome: + "2 + (PAGESIZE / 512) * ECC_BYTES" >= OOBSIZE" + where + OOBSIZE number of bytes in OOB/spare area + PAGESIZE number of bytes in main-area of device 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(a): For a device with PAGESIZE = 2048 and OOBSIZE = 64 and + trying to use BCH16 (ECC_BYTES=26) ecc-scheme. + Number of ECC bytes per page = (2 + (2048 / 512) * 26) = 106 B + which is greater than capacity of NAND device (OOBSIZE=64) + Hence, BCH16 cannot be supported on given device. But it can + probably use lower ecc-schemes like BCH8. + + Example(b): For a device with PAGESIZE = 2048 and OOBSIZE = 128 and + trying to use BCH16 (ECC_BYTES=26) ecc-scheme. + Number of ECC bytes per page = (2 + (2048 / 512) * 26) = 106 B + which can be accomodate in the OOB/Spare area of this device + (OOBSIZE=128). So this device can use BCH16 ecc-scheme. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt index 6d3d57609470..4611aa83531b 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Required properties: representing partitions. - compatible : Should be the manufacturer and the name of the chip. Bear in mind the DT binding is not Linux-only, but in case of Linux, see the - "m25p_ids" table in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c for the list of - supported chips. + "spi_nor_ids" table in drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c for the list + of supported chips. - reg : Chip-Select number - spi-max-frequency : Maximum frequency of the SPI bus the chip can operate at diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/pxa3xx-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/pxa3xx-nand.txt index 86e0a5601ff5..de8b517a5521 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/pxa3xx-nand.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/pxa3xx-nand.txt @@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ Optional properties: - num-cs: Number of chipselect lines to usw - nand-on-flash-bbt: boolean to enable on flash bbt option if not present false + - nand-ecc-strength: number of bits to correct per ECC step + - nand-ecc-step-size: number of data bytes covered by a single ECC step + +The following ECC strength and step size are currently supported: + + - nand-ecc-strength = <1>, nand-ecc-step-size = <512> + - nand-ecc-strength = <4>, nand-ecc-step-size = <512> + - nand-ecc-strength = <8>, nand-ecc-step-size = <512> Example: diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt b/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..548d6306ebca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ + SPI NOR framework + ============================================ + +Part I - Why do we need this framework? +--------------------------------------- + +SPI bus controllers (drivers/spi/) only deal with streams of bytes; the bus +controller operates agnostic of the specific device attached. However, some +controllers (such as Freescale's QuadSPI controller) cannot easily handle +arbitrary streams of bytes, but rather are designed specifically for SPI NOR. + +In particular, Freescale's QuadSPI controller must know the NOR commands to +find the right LUT sequence. Unfortunately, the SPI subsystem has no notion of +opcodes, addresses, or data payloads; a SPI controller simply knows to send or +receive bytes (Tx and Rx). Therefore, we must define a new layering scheme under +which the controller driver is aware of the opcodes, addressing, and other +details of the SPI NOR protocol. + +Part II - How does the framework work? +-------------------------------------- + +This framework just adds a new layer between the MTD and the SPI bus driver. +With this new layer, the SPI NOR controller driver does not depend on the +m25p80 code anymore. + + Before this framework, the layer is like: + + MTD + ------------------------ + m25p80 + ------------------------ + SPI bus driver + ------------------------ + SPI NOR chip + + After this framework, the layer is like: + MTD + ------------------------ + SPI NOR framework + ------------------------ + m25p80 + ------------------------ + SPI bus driver + ------------------------ + SPI NOR chip + + With the SPI NOR controller driver (Freescale QuadSPI), it looks like: + MTD + ------------------------ + SPI NOR framework + ------------------------ + fsl-quadSPI + ------------------------ + SPI NOR chip + +Part III - How can drivers use the framework? +--------------------------------------------- + +The main API is spi_nor_scan(). Before you call the hook, a driver should +initialize the necessary fields for spi_nor{}. Please see +drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c for detail. Please also refer to fsl-quadspi.c +when you want to write a new driver for a SPI NOR controller. |