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| author | Wu, Josh <Josh.wu@atmel.com> | 2012-08-23 00:05:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> | 2012-09-01 17:06:14 +0200 |
| commit | bdfd59aa0f00ea86b1ecf44303790eea355b8585 (patch) | |
| tree | de4a131b7664e0c7aa984995ab0aad104ef8c94d /doc/README.atmel_pmecc | |
| parent | ae79794e544c5079c85596d01022b92c30a7eeb1 (diff) | |
at91: atmel_nand: Update driver to support Programmable Multibit ECC controller
The Programmable Multibit ECC (PMECC) controller is a programmable binary
BCH(Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem) encoder and decoder. This controller
can be used to support both SLC and MLC NAND Flash devices. It supports to
generate ECC to correct 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 bits of error per sector of data.
To use PMECC in this driver, the user needs to set the PMECC correction
capability, the sector size and ROM lookup table offsets in board config file.
This driver is ported from Linux kernel atmel_nand PMECC patch. The main difference
is in this version it uses registers structure access hardware instead of using macros.
It is tested in 9x5 serial boards.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
[rebase]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/README.atmel_pmecc b/doc/README.atmel_pmecc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b483744ea59 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.atmel_pmecc @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +How to enable PMECC(Programmable Multibit ECC) for nand on Atmel SoCs +----------------------------------------------------------- +2012-08-22 Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com> + +The Programmable Multibit ECC (PMECC) controller is a programmable binary +BCH(Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem) encoder and decoder. This controller +can be used to support both SLC and MLC NAND Flash devices. It supports to +generate ECC to correct 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 bits of error per sector (512 or +1024 bytes) of data. + +Following Atmel AT91 products support PMECC. +- AT91SAM9X25, X35, G25, G15, G35 (tested) +- AT91SAM9N12 (not tested, Should work) + +As soon as your nand flash software ECC works, you can enable PMECC. + +To use PMECC in this driver, the user needs to set: + 1. the PMECC correction error bits capability: CONFIG_PMECC_CAP. + It can be 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24. + 2. The PMECC sector size: CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE. + It only can be 512 or 1024. + 3. The PMECC index lookup table's offsets in ROM code: CONFIG_PMECC_INDEX_TABLE_OFFSET. + In the chip datasheet section "Boot Stragegies", you can find + two Galois Field Table in the ROM code. One table is for 512-bytes + sector. Another is for 1024-byte sector. Each Galois Field includes + two sub-table: indext table & alpha table. + In the beginning of each Galois Field Table is the index table, + Alpha table is in the following. + So the index table's offset is same as the Galois Field Table. + + Please set CONFIG_PMECC_INDEX_TABLE_OFFSET correctly according the + Galois Field Table's offset base on the sector size you used. + +Take AT91SAM9X5EK as an example, the board definition file likes: + +/* PMECC & PMERRLOC */ +#define CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HWECC 1 +#define CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HW_PMECC 1 +#define CONFIG_PMECC_CAP 2 +#define CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE 512 +#define CONFIG_PMECC_INDEX_TABLE_OFFSET 0x8000 + +NOTE: If you use 1024 as the sector size, then need set 0x10000 as the + CONFIG_PMECC_INDEX_TABLE_OFFSET |