From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: mxc-nand: Improve comment about vendor BBM and address verschwurbelung
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:44:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240430094451.1038256-4-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> (raw)
To better describe why the BBM is at offset 2000 describe the full
misinterpretation^Wmapping of the NAND memory that the i.MX hardware
implements.
Also adapt the comment to reality: A BBT is created automatically since
commit 2ad441bb7e78 ("mtd: nand-imx: Create BBT automatically when
necessary") which was included in v2020.03.0.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
index 2774b6bb4f01..da1c426d1951 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
@@ -1528,20 +1528,32 @@ static const struct nand_controller_ops mxcnd_controller_ops = {
* 512b data + 16b OOB +
* 512b data + 16b OOB
*
+ * So the mapping between original NAND addressing (as intended by the chip
+ * vendor) and interpretation when accessed via the i.MX NAND controller is as
+ * follows:
+ *
+ * original | i.MX
+ * ---------------------+---------------------
+ * data 0x0000 - 0x0200 | data 0x0000 - 0x0200
+ * data 0x0200 - 0x0210 | oob 0x0000 - 0x0010
+ * data 0x0210 - 0x0410 | data 0x0200 - 0x0400
+ * data 0x0410 - 0x0420 | oob 0x0010 - 0x0020
+ * data 0x0420 - 0x0620 | data 0x0400 - 0x0600
+ * data 0x0620 - 0x0630 | oob 0x0020 - 0x0030
+ * data 0x0630 - 0x0800 | data 0x0600 - 0x07d0
+ * oob 0x0000 - 0x0030 | data 0x07d0 - 0x0800
+ * oob 0x0030 - 0x0040 | oob 0x0030 - 0x0040
+ *
* This means that the factory provided bad block marker ends up
- * in the page data at offset 2000 instead of in the OOB data.
+ * in the page data at offset 2000 = 0x7d0 instead of in the OOB data.
*
- * To preserve the factory bad block information we take the following
- * strategy:
- *
- * - If the NAND driver detects that no flash BBT is present on 2k NAND
- * chips it will not create one because it would do so based on the wrong
- * BBM position
- * - This command is used to create a flash BBT then.
+ * If the NAND driver detects that no flash BBT is present on a 2k NAND
+ * chip it will create one automatically in the assumption that the NAND is
+ * pristine (that is completely erased with only vendor BBMs in the OOB) to
+ * preserve factory bad block information.
*
* From this point on we can forget about the BBMs and rely completely
* on the flash BBT.
- *
*/
static int checkbad(struct nand_chip *chip, loff_t ofs)
{
base-commit: 8ca910b9218822e7122ac9bcb62d0c50acb971ff
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-04-30 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-30 9:44 Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2024-04-30 9:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] mtd: mxc-nand: Cleanup code creating bad block table Uwe Kleine-König
2024-04-30 9:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] mtd: mxc-nand: Only automatically create BBT if NAND seems to be pristine Uwe Kleine-König
2024-05-03 7:44 ` Sascha Hauer
2024-05-06 7:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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