[PATCH 3/3] PPC440EP: MTD support for the Bamboo Board

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Apr 8 11:59:20 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:05 -0700, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:58, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > ... so any reason why NAND_ECC_SOFT is used instead of making use of the
> > ECC registers that come with the NDFC?
> 
> Mainly because I haven't looked at what it would take to get HW ECC
> working yet.  I'll look at this when I have time, but until then at
> least the NAND flashes are functional.

Ok, I figured that was the case and you're absolutely right.  HW ECC
could be considered more of a feature, and I'd rather have usable NAND
now than have to wait longer ;).

> > 
> > Overall, I think the patch looks good.  Care to send it to the MTD
> > maintainers so it gets in their CVS tree?
> 
> Will do.

Thanks.  I gave them a heads up, so they'll be looking for it.

josh



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