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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index b442921bca54..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1291 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> - -<book id="MTD-NAND-Guide"> - <bookinfo> - <title>MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface</title> - - <authorgroup> - <author> - <firstname>Thomas</firstname> - <surname>Gleixner</surname> - <affiliation> - <address> - <email>tglx@linutronix.de</email> - </address> - </affiliation> - </author> - </authorgroup> - - <copyright> - <year>2004</year> - <holder>Thomas Gleixner</holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice> - <para> - This documentation is free software; you can redistribute - it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. - </para> - - <para> - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. - See the GNU General Public License for more details. - </para> - - <para> - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public - License along with this program; if not, write to the Free - Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, - MA 02111-1307 USA - </para> - - <para> - For more details see the file COPYING in the source - distribution of Linux. - </para> - </legalnotice> - </bookinfo> - -<toc></toc> - - <chapter id="intro"> - <title>Introduction</title> - <para> - The generic NAND driver supports almost all NAND and AG-AND based - chips and connects them to the Memory Technology Devices (MTD) - subsystem of the Linux Kernel. - </para> - <para> - This documentation is provided for developers who want to implement - board drivers or filesystem drivers suitable for NAND devices. - </para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="bugs"> - <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title> - <para> - None. - </para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="dochints"> - <title>Documentation hints</title> - <para> - The function and structure docs are autogenerated. Each function and - struct member has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] identifier. - The following chapters explain the meaning of those identifiers. - </para> - <sect1 id="Function_identifiers_XXX"> - <title>Function identifiers [XXX]</title> - <para> - The functions are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the short - comment. The identifiers explain the usage and scope of the - functions. Following identifiers are used: - </para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - [MTD Interface]</para><para> - These functions provide the interface to the MTD kernel API. - They are not replaceable and provide functionality - which is complete hardware independent. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [NAND Interface]</para><para> - These functions are exported and provide the interface to the NAND kernel API. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [GENERIC]</para><para> - Generic functions are not replaceable and provide functionality - which is complete hardware independent. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [DEFAULT]</para><para> - Default functions provide hardware related functionality which is suitable - for most of the implementations. These functions can be replaced by the - board driver if necessary. Those functions are called via pointers in the - NAND chip description structure. The board driver can set the functions which - should be replaced by board dependent functions before calling nand_scan(). - If the function pointer is NULL on entry to nand_scan() then the pointer - is set to the default function which is suitable for the detected chip type. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Struct_member_identifiers_XXX"> - <title>Struct member identifiers [XXX]</title> - <para> - The struct members are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the - comment. The identifiers explain the usage and scope of the - members. Following identifiers are used: - </para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - [INTERN]</para><para> - These members are for NAND driver internal use only and must not be - modified. Most of these values are calculated from the chip geometry - information which is evaluated during nand_scan(). - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [REPLACEABLE]</para><para> - Replaceable members hold hardware related functions which can be - provided by the board driver. The board driver can set the functions which - should be replaced by board dependent functions before calling nand_scan(). - If the function pointer is NULL on entry to nand_scan() then the pointer - is set to the default function which is suitable for the detected chip type. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [BOARDSPECIFIC]</para><para> - Board specific members hold hardware related information which must - be provided by the board driver. The board driver must set the function - pointers and datafields before calling nand_scan(). - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - [OPTIONAL]</para><para> - Optional members can hold information relevant for the board driver. The - generic NAND driver code does not use this information. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="basicboarddriver"> - <title>Basic board driver</title> - <para> - For most boards it will be sufficient to provide just the - basic functions and fill out some really board dependent - members in the nand chip description structure. - </para> - <sect1 id="Basic_defines"> - <title>Basic defines</title> - <para> - At least you have to provide a nand_chip structure - and a storage for the ioremap'ed chip address. - You can allocate the nand_chip structure using - kmalloc or you can allocate it statically. - The NAND chip structure embeds an mtd structure - which will be registered to the MTD subsystem. - You can extract a pointer to the mtd structure - from a nand_chip pointer using the nand_to_mtd() - helper. - </para> - <para> - Kmalloc based example - </para> - <programlisting> -static struct mtd_info *board_mtd; -static void __iomem *baseaddr; - </programlisting> - <para> - Static example - </para> - <programlisting> -static struct nand_chip board_chip; -static void __iomem *baseaddr; - </programlisting> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Partition_defines"> - <title>Partition defines</title> - <para> - If you want to divide your device into partitions, then - define a partitioning scheme suitable to your board. - </para> - <programlisting> -#define NUM_PARTITIONS 2 -static struct mtd_partition partition_info[] = { - { .name = "Flash partition 1", - .offset = 0, - .size = 8 * 1024 * 1024 }, - { .name = "Flash partition 2", - .offset = MTDPART_OFS_NEXT, - .size = MTDPART_SIZ_FULL }, -}; - </programlisting> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Hardware_control_functions"> - <title>Hardware control function</title> - <para> - The hardware control function provides access to the - control pins of the NAND chip(s). - The access can be done by GPIO pins or by address lines. - If you use address lines, make sure that the timing - requirements are met. - </para> - <para> - <emphasis>GPIO based example</emphasis> - </para> - <programlisting> -static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd) -{ - switch(cmd){ - case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: /* Set CLE pin high */ break; - case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: /* Set CLE pin low */ break; - case NAND_CTL_SETALE: /* Set ALE pin high */ break; - case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: /* Set ALE pin low */ break; - case NAND_CTL_SETNCE: /* Set nCE pin low */ break; - case NAND_CTL_CLRNCE: /* Set nCE pin high */ break; - } -} - </programlisting> - <para> - <emphasis>Address lines based example.</emphasis> It's assumed that the - nCE pin is driven by a chip select decoder. - </para> - <programlisting> -static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd) -{ - struct nand_chip *this = mtd_to_nand(mtd); - switch(cmd){ - case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= CLE_ADRR_BIT; break; - case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~CLE_ADRR_BIT; break; - case NAND_CTL_SETALE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= ALE_ADRR_BIT; break; - case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~ALE_ADRR_BIT; break; - } -} - </programlisting> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Device_ready_function"> - <title>Device ready function</title> - <para> - If the hardware interface has the ready busy pin of the NAND chip connected to a - GPIO or other accessible I/O pin, this function is used to read back the state of the - pin. The function has no arguments and should return 0, if the device is busy (R/B pin - is low) and 1, if the device is ready (R/B pin is high). - If the hardware interface does not give access to the ready busy pin, then - the function must not be defined and the function pointer this->dev_ready is set to NULL. - </para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Init_function"> - <title>Init function</title> - <para> - The init function allocates memory and sets up all the board - specific parameters and function pointers. When everything - is set up nand_scan() is called. This function tries to - detect and identify then chip. If a chip is found all the - internal data fields are initialized accordingly. - The structure(s) have to be zeroed out first and then filled with the necessary - information about the device. - </para> - <programlisting> -static int __init board_init (void) -{ - struct nand_chip *this; - int err = 0; - - /* Allocate memory for MTD device structure and private data */ - this = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!this) { - printk ("Unable to allocate NAND MTD device structure.\n"); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } - - board_mtd = nand_to_mtd(this); - - /* map physical address */ - baseaddr = ioremap(CHIP_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, 1024); - if (!baseaddr) { - printk("Ioremap to access NAND chip failed\n"); - err = -EIO; - goto out_mtd; - } - - /* Set address of NAND IO lines */ - this->IO_ADDR_R = baseaddr; - this->IO_ADDR_W = baseaddr; - /* Reference hardware control function */ - this->hwcontrol = board_hwcontrol; - /* Set command delay time, see datasheet for correct value */ - this->chip_delay = CHIP_DEPENDEND_COMMAND_DELAY; - /* Assign the device ready function, if available */ - this->dev_ready = board_dev_ready; - this->eccmode = NAND_ECC_SOFT; - - /* Scan to find existence of the device */ - if (nand_scan (board_mtd, 1)) { - err = -ENXIO; - goto out_ior; - } - - add_mtd_partitions(board_mtd, partition_info, NUM_PARTITIONS); - goto out; - -out_ior: - iounmap(baseaddr); -out_mtd: - kfree (this); -out: - return err; -} -module_init(board_init); - </programlisting> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Exit_function"> - <title>Exit function</title> - <para> - The exit function is only necessary if the driver is - compiled as a module. It releases all resources which - are held by the chip driver and unregisters the partitions - in the MTD layer. - </para> - <programlisting> -#ifdef MODULE -static void __exit board_cleanup (void) -{ - /* Release resources, unregister device */ - nand_release (board_mtd); - - /* unmap physical address */ - iounmap(baseaddr); - - /* Free the MTD device structure */ - kfree (mtd_to_nand(board_mtd)); -} -module_exit(board_cleanup); -#endif - </programlisting> - </sect1> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="boarddriversadvanced"> - <title>Advanced board driver functions</title> - <para> - This chapter describes the advanced functionality of the NAND - driver. For a list of functions which can be overridden by the board - driver see the documentation of the nand_chip structure. - </para> - <sect1 id="Multiple_chip_control"> - <title>Multiple chip control</title> - <para> - The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefore the - board driver must provide an own select_chip function. This - function must (de)select the requested chip. - The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must - be set before calling nand_scan(). The maxchip parameter - of nand_scan() defines the maximum number of chips to - scan for. Make sure that the select_chip function can - handle the requested number of chips. - </para> - <para> - The nand driver concatenates the chips to one virtual - chip and provides this virtual chip to the MTD layer. - </para> - <para> - <emphasis>Note: The driver can only handle linear chip arrays - of equally sized chips. There is no support for - parallel arrays which extend the buswidth.</emphasis> - </para> - <para> - <emphasis>GPIO based example</emphasis> - </para> - <programlisting> -static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip) -{ - /* Deselect all chips, set all nCE pins high */ - GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) |= 0xff; - if (chip >= 0) - GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) &= ~ (1 << chip); -} - </programlisting> - <para> - <emphasis>Address lines based example.</emphasis> - Its assumed that the nCE pins are connected to an - address decoder. - </para> - <programlisting> -static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip) -{ - struct nand_chip *this = mtd_to_nand(mtd); - - /* Deselect all chips */ - this->IO_ADDR_R &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK; - this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK; - switch (chip) { - case 0: - this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0; - this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0; - break; - .... - case n: - this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn; - this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn; - break; - } -} - </programlisting> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Hardware_ECC_support"> - <title>Hardware ECC support</title> - <sect2 id="Functions_and_constants"> - <title>Functions and constants</title> - <para> - The nand driver supports three different types of - hardware ECC. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW3_256</para><para> - Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per - 256 byte. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW3_512</para><para> - Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per - 512 byte. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW6_512</para><para> - Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per - 512 byte. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW8_512</para><para> - Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per - 512 byte. - </para> </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - If your hardware generator has a different functionality - add it at the appropriate place in nand_base.c - </para> - <para> - The board driver must provide following functions: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>enable_hwecc</para><para> - This function is called before reading / writing to - the chip. Reset or initialize the hardware generator - in this function. The function is called with an - argument which let you distinguish between read - and write operations. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>calculate_ecc</para><para> - This function is called after read / write from / to - the chip. Transfer the ECC from the hardware to - the buffer. If the option NAND_HWECC_SYNDROME is set - then the function is only called on write. See below. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>correct_data</para><para> - In case of an ECC error this function is called for - error detection and correction. Return 1 respectively 2 - in case the error can be corrected. If the error is - not correctable return -1. If your hardware generator - matches the default algorithm of the nand_ecc software - generator then use the correction function provided - by nand_ecc instead of implementing duplicated code. - </para> </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="Hardware_ECC_with_syndrome_calculation"> - <title>Hardware ECC with syndrome calculation</title> - <para> - Many hardware ECC implementations provide Reed-Solomon - codes and calculate an error syndrome on read. The syndrome - must be converted to a standard Reed-Solomon syndrome - before calling the error correction code in the generic - Reed-Solomon library. - </para> - <para> - The ECC bytes must be placed immediately after the data - bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This - is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The - separation of data and out of band area is not longer - possible. The nand driver code handles this layout and - the remaining free bytes in the oob area are managed by - the autoplacement code. Provide a matching oob-layout - in this case. See rts_from4.c and diskonchip.c for - implementation reference. In those cases we must also - use bad block tables on FLASH, because the ECC layout is - interfering with the bad block marker positions. - See bad block table support for details. - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Bad_Block_table_support"> - <title>Bad block table support</title> - <para> - Most NAND chips mark the bad blocks at a defined - position in the spare area. Those blocks must - not be erased under any circumstances as the bad - block information would be lost. - It is possible to check the bad block mark each - time when the blocks are accessed by reading the - spare area of the first page in the block. This - is time consuming so a bad block table is used. - </para> - <para> - The nand driver supports various types of bad block - tables. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Per device</para><para> - The bad block table contains all bad block information - of the device which can consist of multiple chips. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>Per chip</para><para> - A bad block table is used per chip and contains the - bad block information for this particular chip. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>Fixed offset</para><para> - The bad block table is located at a fixed offset - in the chip (device). This applies to various - DiskOnChip devices. - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>Automatic placed</para><para> - The bad block table is automatically placed and - detected either at the end or at the beginning - of a chip (device) - </para> </listitem> - <listitem><para>Mirrored tables</para><para> - The bad block table is mirrored on the chip (device) to - allow updates of the bad block table without data loss. - </para> </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - nand_scan() calls the function nand_default_bbt(). - nand_default_bbt() selects appropriate default - bad block table descriptors depending on the chip information - which was retrieved by nand_scan(). - </para> - <para> - The standard policy is scanning the device for bad - blocks and build a ram based bad block table which - allows faster access than always checking the - bad block information on the flash chip itself. - </para> - <sect2 id="Flash_based_tables"> - <title>Flash based tables</title> - <para> - It may be desired or necessary to keep a bad block table in FLASH. - For AG-AND chips this is mandatory, as they have no factory marked - bad blocks. They have factory marked good blocks. The marker pattern - is erased when the block is erased to be reused. So in case of - powerloss before writing the pattern back to the chip this block - would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefore we scan the - chip(s) when we detect them the first time for good blocks and - store this information in a bad block table before erasing any - of the blocks. - </para> - <para> - The blocks in which the tables are stored are protected against - accidental access by marking them bad in the memory bad block - table. The bad block table management functions are allowed - to circumvent this protection. - </para> - <para> - The simplest way to activate the FLASH based bad block table support - is to set the option NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH in the bbt_option field of - the nand chip structure before calling nand_scan(). For AG-AND - chips is this done by default. - This activates the default FLASH based bad block table functionality - of the NAND driver. The default bad block table options are - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Store bad block table per chip</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Use 2 bits per block</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Automatic placement at the end of the chip</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Use mirrored tables with version numbers</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Reserve 4 blocks at the end of the chip</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="User_defined_tables"> - <title>User defined tables</title> - <para> - User defined tables are created by filling out a - nand_bbt_descr structure and storing the pointer in the - nand_chip structure member bbt_td before calling nand_scan(). - If a mirror table is necessary a second structure must be - created and a pointer to this structure must be stored - in bbt_md inside the nand_chip structure. If the bbt_md - member is set to NULL then only the main table is used - and no scan for the mirrored table is performed. - </para> - <para> - The most important field in the nand_bbt_descr structure - is the options field. The options define most of the - table properties. Use the predefined constants from - nand.h to define the options. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Number of bits per block</para> - <para>The supported number of bits is 1, 2, 4, 8.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table per chip</para> - <para>Setting the constant NAND_BBT_PERCHIP selects that - a bad block table is managed for each chip in a chip array. - If this option is not set then a per device bad block table - is used.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table location is absolute</para> - <para>Use the option constant NAND_BBT_ABSPAGE and - define the absolute page number where the bad block - table starts in the field pages. If you have selected bad block - tables per chip and you have a multi chip array then the start page - must be given for each chip in the chip array. Note: there is no scan - for a table ident pattern performed, so the fields - pattern, veroffs, offs, len can be left uninitialized</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table location is automatically detected</para> - <para>The table can either be located in the first or the last good - blocks of the chip (device). Set NAND_BBT_LASTBLOCK to place - the bad block table at the end of the chip (device). The - bad block tables are marked and identified by a pattern which - is stored in the spare area of the first page in the block which - holds the bad block table. Store a pointer to the pattern - in the pattern field. Further the length of the pattern has to be - stored in len and the offset in the spare area must be given - in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr structure. For mirrored - bad block tables different patterns are mandatory.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table creation</para> - <para>Set the option NAND_BBT_CREATE to enable the table creation - if no table can be found during the scan. Usually this is done only - once if a new chip is found. </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table write support</para> - <para>Set the option NAND_BBT_WRITE to enable the table write support. - This allows the update of the bad block table(s) in case a block has - to be marked bad due to wear. The MTD interface function block_markbad - is calling the update function of the bad block table. If the write - support is enabled then the table is updated on FLASH.</para> - <para> - Note: Write support should only be enabled for mirrored tables with - version control. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Table version control</para> - <para>Set the option NAND_BBT_VERSION to enable the table version control. - It's highly recommended to enable this for mirrored tables with write - support. It makes sure that the risk of losing the bad block - table information is reduced to the loss of the information about the - one worn out block which should be marked bad. The version is stored in - 4 consecutive bytes in the spare area of the device. The position of - the version number is defined by the member veroffs in the bad block table - descriptor.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Save block contents on write</para> - <para> - In case that the block which holds the bad block table does contain - other useful information, set the option NAND_BBT_SAVECONTENT. When - the bad block table is written then the whole block is read the bad - block table is updated and the block is erased and everything is - written back. If this option is not set only the bad block table - is written and everything else in the block is ignored and erased. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Number of reserved blocks</para> - <para> - For automatic placement some blocks must be reserved for - bad block table storage. The number of reserved blocks is defined - in the maxblocks member of the bad block table description structure. - Reserving 4 blocks for mirrored tables should be a reasonable number. - This also limits the number of blocks which are scanned for the bad - block table ident pattern. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Spare_area_placement"> - <title>Spare area (auto)placement</title> - <para> - The nand driver implements different possibilities for - placement of filesystem data in the spare area, - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Placement defined by fs driver</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Automatic placement</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - The default placement function is automatic placement. The - nand driver has built in default placement schemes for the - various chiptypes. If due to hardware ECC functionality the - default placement does not fit then the board driver can - provide a own placement scheme. - </para> - <para> - File system drivers can provide a own placement scheme which - is used instead of the default placement scheme. - </para> - <para> - Placement schemes are defined by a nand_oobinfo structure - <programlisting> -struct nand_oobinfo { - int useecc; - int eccbytes; - int eccpos[24]; - int oobfree[8][2]; -}; - </programlisting> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>useecc</para><para> - The useecc member controls the ecc and placement function. The header - file include/mtd/mtd-abi.h contains constants to select ecc and - placement. MTD_NANDECC_OFF switches off the ecc complete. This is - not recommended and available for testing and diagnosis only. - MTD_NANDECC_PLACE selects caller defined placement, MTD_NANDECC_AUTOPLACE - selects automatic placement. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>eccbytes</para><para> - The eccbytes member defines the number of ecc bytes per page. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>eccpos</para><para> - The eccpos array holds the byte offsets in the spare area where - the ecc codes are placed. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>oobfree</para><para> - The oobfree array defines the areas in the spare area which can be - used for automatic placement. The information is given in the format - {offset, size}. offset defines the start of the usable area, size the - length in bytes. More than one area can be defined. The list is terminated - by an {0, 0} entry. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <sect2 id="Placement_defined_by_fs_driver"> - <title>Placement defined by fs driver</title> - <para> - The calling function provides a pointer to a nand_oobinfo - structure which defines the ecc placement. For writes the - caller must provide a spare area buffer along with the - data buffer. The spare area buffer size is (number of pages) * - (size of spare area). For reads the buffer size is - (number of pages) * ((size of spare area) + (number of ecc - steps per page) * sizeof (int)). The driver stores the - result of the ecc check for each tuple in the spare buffer. - The storage sequence is - </para> - <para> - <spare data page 0><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n> - </para> - <para> - ... - </para> - <para> - <spare data page n><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n> - </para> - <para> - This is a legacy mode used by YAFFS1. - </para> - <para> - If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is - done according to the given scheme in the nand_oobinfo structure. - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="Automatic_placement"> - <title>Automatic placement</title> - <para> - Automatic placement uses the built in defaults to place the - ecc bytes in the spare area. If filesystem data have to be stored / - read into the spare area then the calling function must provide a - buffer. The buffer size per page is determined by the oobfree array in - the nand_oobinfo structure. - </para> - <para> - If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is - done according to the default builtin scheme. - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="Spare_area_autoplacement_default"> - <title>Spare area autoplacement default schemes</title> - <sect2 id="pagesize_256"> - <title>256 byte pagesize</title> -<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody> -<row> -<entry>Offset</entry> -<entry>Content</entry> -<entry>Comment</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x00</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 0</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x01</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 1</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x02</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 2</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x03</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 0</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x04</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 1</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x05</entry> -<entry>Bad block marker</entry> -<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad. -This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining -pages this byte is reserved</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x06</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 2</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x07</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 3</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -</tbody></tgroup></informaltable> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="pagesize_512"> - <title>512 byte pagesize</title> -<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody> -<row> -<entry>Offset</entry> -<entry>Content</entry> -<entry>Comment</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x00</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 0</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the lower 256 Byte data in -this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x01</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 1</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the lower 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x02</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 2</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the lower 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x03</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 3</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the upper 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x04</entry> -<entry>reserved</entry> -<entry>reserved</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x05</entry> -<entry>Bad block marker</entry> -<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad. -This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining -pages this byte is reserved</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x06</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 4</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the upper 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x07</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 5</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the upper 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x08 - 0x0F</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 0 - 7</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -</tbody></tgroup></informaltable> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="pagesize_2048"> - <title>2048 byte pagesize</title> -<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody> -<row> -<entry>Offset</entry> -<entry>Content</entry> -<entry>Comment</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x00</entry> -<entry>Bad block marker</entry> -<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad. -This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining -pages this byte is reserved</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x01</entry> -<entry>Reserved</entry> -<entry>Reserved</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x02-0x27</entry> -<entry>Autoplace 0 - 37</entry> -<entry></entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x28</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 0</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the first 256 Byte data in -this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x29</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 1</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the first 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2A</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 2</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the first 256 Bytes data in -this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2B</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 3</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the second 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2C</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 4</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the second 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2D</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 5</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the second 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2E</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 6</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the third 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x2F</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 7</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the third 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x30</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 8</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the third 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x31</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 9</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the fourth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x32</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 10</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the fourth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x33</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 11</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the fourth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x34</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 12</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the fifth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x35</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 13</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the fifth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x36</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 14</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the fifth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x37</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 15</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the sixt 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x38</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 16</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the sixt 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x39</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 17</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the sixt 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3A</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 18</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the seventh 256 Bytes of -data in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3B</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 19</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the seventh 256 Bytes of -data in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3C</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 20</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the seventh 256 Bytes of -data in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3D</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 21</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3E</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 22</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -<row> -<entry>0x3F</entry> -<entry>ECC byte 23</entry> -<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the eighth 256 Bytes of data -in this page</entry> -</row> -</tbody></tgroup></informaltable> - </sect2> - </sect1> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="filesystems"> - <title>Filesystem support</title> - <para> - The NAND driver provides all necessary functions for a - filesystem via the MTD interface. - </para> - <para> - Filesystems must be aware of the NAND peculiarities and - restrictions. One major restrictions of NAND Flash is, that you cannot - write as often as you want to a page. The consecutive writes to a page, - before erasing it again, are restricted to 1-3 writes, depending on the - manufacturers specifications. This applies similar to the spare area. - </para> - <para> - Therefore NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks - or hold a writebuffer to collect smaller writes until they sum up to - pagesize. Available NAND aware filesystems: JFFS2, YAFFS. - </para> - <para> - The spare area usage to store filesystem data is controlled by - the spare area placement functionality which is described in one - of the earlier chapters. - </para> - </chapter> - <chapter id="tools"> - <title>Tools</title> - <para> - The MTD project provides a couple of helpful tools to handle NAND Flash. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>flasherase, flasheraseall: Erase and format FLASH partitions</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>nandwrite: write filesystem images to NAND FLASH</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>nanddump: dump the contents of a NAND FLASH partitions</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - These tools are aware of the NAND restrictions. Please use those tools - instead of complaining about errors which are caused by non NAND aware - access methods. - </para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="defines"> - <title>Constants</title> - <para> - This chapter describes the constants which might be relevant for a driver developer. - </para> - <sect1 id="Chip_option_constants"> - <title>Chip option constants</title> - <sect2 id="Constants_for_chip_id_table"> - <title>Constants for chip id table</title> - <para> - These constants are defined in nand.h. They are ored together to describe - the chip functionality. - <programlisting> -/* Buswitdh is 16 bit */ -#define NAND_BUSWIDTH_16 0x00000002 -/* Device supports partial programming without padding */ -#define NAND_NO_PADDING 0x00000004 -/* Chip has cache program function */ -#define NAND_CACHEPRG 0x00000008 -/* Chip has copy back function */ -#define NAND_COPYBACK 0x00000010 -/* AND Chip which has 4 banks and a confusing page / block - * assignment. See Renesas datasheet for further information */ -#define NAND_IS_AND 0x00000020 -/* Chip has a array of 4 pages which can be read without - * additional ready /busy waits */ -#define NAND_4PAGE_ARRAY 0x00000040 - </programlisting> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="Constants_for_runtime_options"> - <title>Constants for runtime options</title> - <para> - These constants are defined in nand.h. They are ored together to describe - the functionality. - <programlisting> -/* The hw ecc generator provides a syndrome instead a ecc value on read - * This can only work if we have the ecc bytes directly behind the - * data bytes. Applies for DOC and AG-AND Renesas HW Reed Solomon generators */ -#define NAND_HWECC_SYNDROME 0x00020000 - </programlisting> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="EEC_selection_constants"> - <title>ECC selection constants</title> - <para> - Use these constants to select the ECC algorithm. - <programlisting> -/* No ECC. Usage is not recommended ! */ -#define NAND_ECC_NONE 0 -/* Software ECC 3 byte ECC per 256 Byte data */ -#define NAND_ECC_SOFT 1 -/* Hardware ECC 3 byte ECC per 256 Byte data */ -#define NAND_ECC_HW3_256 2 -/* Hardware ECC 3 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ -#define NAND_ECC_HW3_512 3 -/* Hardware ECC 6 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ -#define NAND_ECC_HW6_512 4 -/* Hardware ECC 6 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ -#define NAND_ECC_HW8_512 6 - </programlisting> - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="Hardware_control_related_constants"> - <title>Hardware control related constants</title> - <para> - These constants describe the requested hardware access function when - the boardspecific hardware control function is called - <programlisting> -/* Select the chip by setting nCE to low */ -#define NAND_CTL_SETNCE 1 -/* Deselect the chip by setting nCE to high */ -#define NAND_CTL_CLRNCE 2 -/* Select the command latch by setting CLE to high */ -#define NAND_CTL_SETCLE 3 -/* Deselect the command latch by setting CLE to low */ -#define NAND_CTL_CLRCLE 4 -/* Select the address latch by setting ALE to high */ -#define NAND_CTL_SETALE 5 -/* Deselect the address latch by setting ALE to low */ -#define NAND_CTL_CLRALE 6 -/* Set write protection by setting WP to high. Not used! */ -#define NAND_CTL_SETWP 7 -/* Clear write protection by setting WP to low. Not used! */ -#define NAND_CTL_CLRWP 8 - </programlisting> - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="Bad_block_table_constants"> - <title>Bad block table related constants</title> - <para> - These constants describe the options used for bad block - table descriptors. - <programlisting> -/* Options for the bad block table descriptors */ - -/* The number of bits used per block in the bbt on the device */ -#define NAND_BBT_NRBITS_MSK 0x0000000F -#define NAND_BBT_1BIT 0x00000001 -#define NAND_BBT_2BIT 0x00000002 -#define NAND_BBT_4BIT 0x00000004 -#define NAND_BBT_8BIT 0x00000008 -/* The bad block table is in the last good block of the device */ -#define NAND_BBT_LASTBLOCK 0x00000010 -/* The bbt is at the given page, else we must scan for the bbt */ -#define NAND_BBT_ABSPAGE 0x00000020 -/* bbt is stored per chip on multichip devices */ -#define NAND_BBT_PERCHIP 0x00000080 -/* bbt has a version counter at offset veroffs */ -#define NAND_BBT_VERSION 0x00000100 -/* Create a bbt if none axists */ -#define NAND_BBT_CREATE 0x00000200 -/* Write bbt if necessary */ -#define NAND_BBT_WRITE 0x00001000 -/* Read and write back block contents when writing bbt */ -#define NAND_BBT_SAVECONTENT 0x00002000 - </programlisting> - </para> - </sect1> - - </chapter> - - <chapter id="structs"> - <title>Structures</title> - <para> - This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the structures which are - used in the NAND driver and might be relevant for a driver developer. Each - struct member has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] identifier. - See the chapter "Documentation hints" for an explanation. - </para> -!Iinclude/linux/mtd/nand.h - </chapter> - - <chapter id="pubfunctions"> - <title>Public Functions Provided</title> - <para> - This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the NAND kernel API functions - which are exported. Each function has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] identifier. - See the chapter "Documentation hints" for an explanation. - </para> -!Edrivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c -!Edrivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c -!Edrivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c - </chapter> - - <chapter id="intfunctions"> - <title>Internal Functions Provided</title> - <para> - This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the NAND driver internal functions. - Each function has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] identifier. - See the chapter "Documentation hints" for an explanation. - The functions marked with [DEFAULT] might be relevant for a board driver developer. - </para> -!Idrivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c -!Idrivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c -<!-- No internal functions for kernel-doc: -X!Idrivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c ---> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="credits"> - <title>Credits</title> - <para> - The following people have contributed to the NAND driver: - <orderedlist> - <listitem><para>Steven J. Hill<email>sjhill@realitydiluted.com</email></para></listitem> - <listitem><para>David Woodhouse<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email></para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Thomas Gleixner<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email></para></listitem> - </orderedlist> - A lot of users have provided bugfixes, improvements and helping hands for testing. - Thanks a lot. - </para> - <para> - The following people have contributed to this document: - <orderedlist> - <listitem><para>Thomas Gleixner<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email></para></listitem> - </orderedlist> - </para> - </chapter> -</book> |