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1NAND FLASH commands and notes
2
3See NOTE below!!!
4
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25
26Commands:
27
28   nand bad
29      Print a list of all of the bad blocks in the current device.
30
31   nand device
32      Print information about the current NAND device.
33
34   nand device num
35      Make device `num' the current device and print information about it.
36
37   nand erase off|partition size
38   nand erase clean [off|partition size]
39      Erase `size' bytes starting at offset `off'. Alternatively partition
40      name can be specified, in this case size will be eventually limited
41      to not exceed partition size (this behaviour applies also to read
42      and write commands). Only complete erase blocks can be erased.
43
44      If `erase' is specified without an offset or size, the entire flash
45      is erased. If `erase' is specified with partition but without an
46      size, the entire partition is erased.
47
48      If `clean' is specified, a JFFS2-style clean marker is written to
49      each block after it is erased.
50
51      This command will not erase blocks that are marked bad. There is
52      a debug option in cmd_nand.c to allow bad blocks to be erased.
53      Please read the warning there before using it, as blocks marked
54      bad by the manufacturer must _NEVER_ be erased.
55
56   nand info
57      Print information about all of the NAND devices found.
58
59   nand read addr ofs|partition size
60      Read `size' bytes from `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'.  Blocks that
61      are marked bad are skipped.  If a page cannot be read because an
62      uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error.
63
64   nand read.oob addr ofs|partition size
65      Read `size' bytes from the out-of-band data area corresponding to
66      `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This is limited to the 16 bytes of
67      data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
68      for bad blocks or ECC errors.
69
70   nand write addr ofs|partition size
71      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash.  Blocks that
72      are marked bad are skipped.  If a page cannot be read because an
73      uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error.
74
75      As JFFS2 skips blocks similarly, this allows writing a JFFS2 image,
76      as long as the image is short enough to fit even after skipping the
77      bad blocks.  Compact images, such as those produced by mkfs.jffs2
78      should work well, but loading an image copied from another flash is
79      going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks.
80
81   nand write.oob addr ofs|partition size
82      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area
83      corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes
84      of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
85      for bad blocks.
86
87Configuration Options:
88
89   CONFIG_CMD_NAND
90      Enables NAND support and commmands.
91
92   CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2
93      Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in
94      the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system.
95      CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_YAFFS would be another useful choice for
96      someone to implement.
97
98   CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE
99      The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
100
101NAND Interface:
102
103   #define NAND_WAIT_READY(nand)
104      Wait until the NAND flash is ready. Typically this would be a
105      loop waiting for the READY/BUSY line from the flash to indicate it
106      it is ready.
107
108   #define WRITE_NAND_COMMAND(d, adr)
109      Write the command byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
110      CLE (command latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
111      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
112      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
113      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETCLE()
114      and company do it.
115
116   #define WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS(d, adr)
117      Write the address byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
118      ALE (address latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
119      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
120      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
121      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETALE()
122      and company do it.
123
124   #define WRITE_NAND(d, adr)
125      Write the data byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
126      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses writes to
127      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
128      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
129      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
130      and company do it.
131
132   #define READ_NAND(adr)
133      Read a data byte from the flash at `adr' with the
134      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses reads from
135      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
136      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
137      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
138      and company do it.
139
140   #define NAND_DISABLE_CE(nand)
141      Set CE (Chip Enable) low to enable the NAND flash.
142
143   #define NAND_ENABLE_CE(nand)
144      Set CE (Chip Enable) high to disable the NAND flash.
145
146   #define NAND_CTL_CLRALE(nandptr)
147      Set ALE (address latch enable) low. If ALE control is handled by
148      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
149
150   #define NAND_CTL_SETALE(nandptr)
151      Set ALE (address latch enable) high. If ALE control is handled by
152      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
153
154   #define NAND_CTL_CLRCLE(nandptr)
155      Set CLE (command latch enable) low. If CLE control is handled by
156      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
157
158   #define NAND_CTL_SETCLE(nandptr)
159      Set CLE (command latch enable) high. If CLE control is handled by
160      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
161
162More Definitions:
163
164   These definitions are needed in the board configuration for now, but
165   may really belong in a header file.
166   TODO: Figure which ones are truly configuration settings and rename
167	 them to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_... and move the rest somewhere appropriate.
168
169   #define SECTORSIZE 512
170   #define ADDR_COLUMN 1
171   #define ADDR_PAGE 2
172   #define ADDR_COLUMN_PAGE 3
173   #define NAND_ChipID_UNKNOWN 0x00
174   #define NAND_MAX_FLOORS 1
175   #define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_CHIPS 1
176
177   #define CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC
178      Versions of U-Boot <= 1.3.3 and Montavista Linux kernels
179      generated bogus ECCs on large-page NAND. Both large and small page
180      NAND ECCs were incompatible with the Linux davinci git tree (since
181      NAND was integrated in 2.6.24).
182      Turn this ON if you want backwards compatibility.
183      Turn this OFF if you want U-Boot and the Linux davinci git kernel
184      to use the same ECC format.
185
186NOTE:
187=====
188
189We now use a complete rewrite of the NAND code based on what is in
1902.6.12 Linux kernel.
191
192The old NAND handling code has been re-factored and is now confined
193to only board-specific files and - unfortunately - to the DoC code
194(see below). A new configuration variable has been introduced:
195CONFIG_NAND_LEGACY, which has to be defined in the board config file if
196that board uses legacy code.
197
198The necessary changes have been made to all affected boards, and no
199build breakage has been introduced, except for NETTA and NETTA_ISDN
200targets from MAKEALL. This is due to the fact that these two boards
201use JFFS, which has been adopted to use the new NAND, and at the same
202time use NAND in legacy mode. The breakage will disappear when the
203board-specific code is changed to the new NAND.
204
205As mentioned above, the legacy code is still used by the DoC subsystem.
206The consequence of this is that the legacy NAND can't be removed  from
207the tree until the DoC is ported to use the new NAND support (or boards
208with DoC will break).
209
210
211Additional improvements to the NAND subsystem by Guido Classen, 10-10-2006
212
213JFFS2 related commands:
214
215  implement "nand erase clean" and old "nand erase"
216  using both the new code which is able to skip bad blocks
217  "nand erase clean" additionally writes JFFS2-cleanmarkers in the oob.
218
219Miscellaneous and testing commands:
220  "markbad [offset]"
221  create an artificial bad block (for testing bad block handling)
222
223  "scrub [offset length]"
224  like "erase" but don't skip bad block. Instead erase them.
225  DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only
226  to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command.
227
228
229NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin)
230
231  "nand lock"
232  set NAND chip to lock state (all pages locked)
233
234  "nand lock tight"
235  set NAND chip to lock tight state (software can't change locking anymore)
236
237  "nand lock status"
238  displays current locking status of all pages
239
240  "nand unlock [offset] [size]"
241  unlock consecutive area (can be called multiple times for different areas)
242
243
244I have tested the code with board containing 128MiB NAND large page chips
245and 32MiB small page chips.
246