linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] mtd: rawnand: denali_dt: Add support for configuring SPARE_AREA_SKIP

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:06:25 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@...el.com>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] mtd: rawnand: denali_dt: Add support for configuring SPARE_AREA_SKIP_BYTES

On Fri, 2019-12-20 at 11:31:52 UTC, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> From: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
> 
> The SPARE_AREA_SKIP_BYTES register is reset when the controller reset
> signal is toggled. Yet, this register must be configured to match the
> content of the NAND OOB area. The current default value is always set
> to 8 and is programmed into the hardware in case the hardware was not
> programmed before (e.g. in a bootloader) with a different value. This
> however does not work when the block is reset properly by Linux.
> 
> On Altera SoCFPGA CycloneV, ArriaV and Arria10, which are the SoCFPGA
> platforms which support booting from NAND, the SPARE_AREA_SKIP_BYTES
> value must be set to 2. On Socionext Uniphier, the value is 8. This
> patch adds support for preconfiguring the default value and handles
> the special SoCFPGA case by setting the default to 2 on all SoCFPGA
> platforms, while retaining the original behavior and default value of
> 8 on all the other platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
> To: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
> Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>
> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel