linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: add Broadcom NAND controller support

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Message-ID: <CACna6rykQTjtfL8mqHJ4ZSY9Ci+kVhjDfDkjRpsFvg4YatNATw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 8 Mar 2015 01:01:14 +0100
From:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>,
	Anatol Pomazao <anatol@...gle.com>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
	Corneliu Doban <cdoban@...adcom.com>,
	Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@...adcom.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: add Broadcom NAND controller support

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your work on this. It looks amazing, nice piece of code :)

On 7 March 2015 at 02:18, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com> wrote:
> This adds (long in coming) support for the Broadcom BCM7xxx Set-Top Box NAND
> controller. This controller has been used in a variety of Broadcom SoCs.
>
> There are a few more features I'd like add in the near future, mostly to
> support more SoCs, but this is the base set, which should only need relatively
> minor additions to support chips like BCM63138, BCM3384, and Cygnus/iProc.
> Particularly, we may need to straighten out some endianness issues for the data
> path on iProc, and interrupt enabling/acking on iProc, BCM63xxx, BCM3xxx, and
> others.

After applying workaround for not working IRQ, it seems I have some
problem with endianess on my BCM4708 (SoC with 6.01 controller).

Let me start with dumps of "nvram" MTD partition.
1) Dumping with Netgear's original firmware:
# hexdump -C -n 16 mtdblock1.bin
00000000  46 4c 53 48 40 79 00 00  84 01 00 00 47 01 1c 08  |FLSH@.......G...|
2) Dumping with OpenWrt and its bcm_nand.c:
root@...nWrt:/# hexdump -C -n 16 /dev/mtdblock1
00000000  46 4c 53 48 38 79 00 00  cb 01 00 00 47 01 1c 08  |FLSH8y......G...|

This makes me feel that bcm_nand.c driver is OK.
Unfortunately when using brcmstb_nand.c my bcm47xxpart partition
driver didn't detect any partition at all. This means I couldn't use
any /dev/mtdblockX, not even user space as it wasn't mounted.

So since I didn't have user space, I decided to add some debugging to
bcm47xxpart itself. There is what I got:
1) OpenWrt and its bcm_nand.c:
[bcm47xxpart_parse] 0x80000  46 4c 53 48  38 79 00 00  cb 01 00 00  47 01 1c 08
2) OpenWrt and brcmstb_nand.c:
[bcm47xxpart_parse] 0x80000  48 53 4c 46  00 00 79 38  00 00 01 cb  08 1c 01 47

So obviously data returned by brcmstb_nand.c seems to be all
endianess-flipped. Could you take a loo at this?
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