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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Alessandro Rubini <rubini-list@gnudd.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, braghiroli@amelchem.com,
	scaglia@amelchem.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] at91sam9x5: for ROM base address (bugfix for nand ECC)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:08:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151002070809.GN7858@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151001215936.GA1121@mail.gnudd.com>

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:59:36PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] at91sam9x5: for ROM base address (bugfix for nand ECC)
> 
> Argh! After a lot of editing, the subject line is wrong.
> 
>    fix ROM base address (bugfix for nand ECC)

I applied the patch with this spelling fix and your name written
correctly.

> 
> Anyways, let me add this detail.  The current code considers the
> case where dev_request_mem_region() fails.
> 
>         host->pmecc_rom_base = dev_request_mem_region(dev, 3);
>         if (!host->pmecc_rom_base) {
>                    [...]
> 
> What it does in "[...]" is creating the tables with proper math..  I
> tried to skip the request_mem_region() above and ECC works perfectly,
> with the software-generated table.
> 
> So I wonder whether it makes sense to just remove the declaration of
> the ROM are memory-region-3 for NAND, and just use the software-built
> tables.

Are the software defined tables on all SoCs identical to the ROM tables?
If not that may be a reason to use the software tables only as a
fallback.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-02  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-01 21:48 Alessandro Rubini
2015-10-01 21:59 ` Alessandro Rubini
2015-10-02  7:08   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-10-01 22:16 ` Alexandre Belloni

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