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Commit b4b1e769 authored by Helmut Raiger's avatar Helmut Raiger Committed by Scott Wood
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mxc_nand: fix a problem writing more than 32MB


When writing 0x4000 to the unlockend_blkaddr register, large writes to
a 2k page NAND sometimes fail. The current kernel driver writes 0xFFFF
to this register for V2 of the nand controller.

However on an i.MX31 this also fixes writes larger than 32MB.
The datasheet is very unspecific, but (0x4000=16384)*2000
roughly fits the limits we're encountering with NAND writes.
This problem might be NAND chip specific.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelmut Raiger <helmut.raiger@hale.at>
Signed-off-by: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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...@@ -1371,7 +1371,18 @@ int board_nand_init(struct nand_chip *this) ...@@ -1371,7 +1371,18 @@ int board_nand_init(struct nand_chip *this)
/* Blocks to be unlocked */ /* Blocks to be unlocked */
writew(0x0, &host->regs->nfc_unlockstart_blkaddr); writew(0x0, &host->regs->nfc_unlockstart_blkaddr);
writew(0x4000, &host->regs->nfc_unlockend_blkaddr); /* Originally (Freescale LTIB 2.6.21) 0x4000 was written to the
* unlockend_blkaddr, but the magic 0x4000 does not always work
* when writing more than some 32 megabytes (on 2k page nands)
* However 0xFFFF doesn't seem to have this kind
* of limitation (tried it back and forth several times).
* The linux kernel driver sets this to 0xFFFF for the v2 controller
* only, but probably this was not tested there for v1.
* The very same limitation seems to apply to this kernel driver.
* This might be NAND chip specific and the i.MX31 datasheet is
* extremely vague about the semantics of this register.
*/
writew(0xFFFF, &host->regs->nfc_unlockend_blkaddr);
/* Unlock Block Command for given address range */ /* Unlock Block Command for given address range */
writew(0x4, &host->regs->nfc_wrprot); writew(0x4, &host->regs->nfc_wrprot);
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