1NAND FLASH commands and notes 2 3See NOTE below!!! 4 5# (C) Copyright 2003 6# Dave Ellis, SIXNET, dge@sixnetio.com 7# 8# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ 9 10Commands: 11 12 nand bad 13 Print a list of all of the bad blocks in the current device. 14 15 nand device 16 Print information about the current NAND device. 17 18 nand device num 19 Make device `num' the current device and print information about it. 20 21 nand erase off|partition size 22 nand erase clean [off|partition size] 23 Erase `size' bytes starting at offset `off'. Alternatively partition 24 name can be specified, in this case size will be eventually limited 25 to not exceed partition size (this behaviour applies also to read 26 and write commands). Only complete erase blocks can be erased. 27 28 If `erase' is specified without an offset or size, the entire flash 29 is erased. If `erase' is specified with partition but without an 30 size, the entire partition is erased. 31 32 If `clean' is specified, a JFFS2-style clean marker is written to 33 each block after it is erased. 34 35 This command will not erase blocks that are marked bad. There is 36 a debug option in cmd_nand.c to allow bad blocks to be erased. 37 Please read the warning there before using it, as blocks marked 38 bad by the manufacturer must _NEVER_ be erased. 39 40 nand info 41 Print information about all of the NAND devices found. 42 43 nand read addr ofs|partition size 44 Read `size' bytes from `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. Blocks that 45 are marked bad are skipped. If a page cannot be read because an 46 uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error. 47 48 nand read.oob addr ofs|partition size 49 Read `size' bytes from the out-of-band data area corresponding to 50 `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This is limited to the 16 bytes of 51 data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check 52 for bad blocks or ECC errors. 53 54 nand write addr ofs|partition size 55 Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash. Blocks that 56 are marked bad are skipped. If a page cannot be read because an 57 uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error. 58 59 As JFFS2 skips blocks similarly, this allows writing a JFFS2 image, 60 as long as the image is short enough to fit even after skipping the 61 bad blocks. Compact images, such as those produced by mkfs.jffs2 62 should work well, but loading an image copied from another flash is 63 going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks. 64 65 nand write.trimffs addr ofs|partition size 66 Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS macro. This command will write to 67 the NAND flash in a manner identical to the 'nand write' command 68 described above -- with the additional check that all pages at the end 69 of eraseblocks which contain only 0xff data will not be written to the 70 NAND flash. This behaviour is required when flashing UBI images 71 containing UBIFS volumes as per the UBI FAQ[1]. 72 73 [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo 74 75 nand write.oob addr ofs|partition size 76 Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area 77 corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes 78 of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check 79 for bad blocks. 80 81 nand read.raw addr ofs|partition [count] 82 nand write.raw addr ofs|partition [count] 83 Read or write one or more pages at "ofs" in NAND flash, from or to 84 "addr" in memory. This is a raw access, so ECC is avoided and the 85 OOB area is transferred as well. If count is absent, it is assumed 86 to be one page. As with .yaffs2 accesses, the data is formatted as 87 a packed sequence of "data, oob, data, oob, ..." -- no alignment of 88 individual pages is maintained. 89 90Configuration Options: 91 92 CONFIG_CMD_NAND 93 Enables NAND support and commmands. 94 95 CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE 96 Enables the torture command (see description of this command below). 97 98 CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2 99 Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in 100 the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system. 101 CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_YAFFS would be another useful choice for 102 someone to implement. 103 104 CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE 105 The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support. 106 107 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_ECCPOS 108 If specified, overrides the maximum number of ECC bytes 109 supported. Useful for reducing image size, especially with SPL. 110 This must be at least 48 if nand_base.c is used. 111 112 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_OOBFREE 113 If specified, overrides the maximum number of free OOB regions 114 supported. Useful for reducing image size, especially with SPL. 115 This must be at least 2 if nand_base.c is used. 116 117 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_CHIPS 118 The maximum number of NAND chips per device to be supported. 119 120 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT 121 Traditionally, glue code in drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c has driven 122 the initialization process -- it provides the mtd and nand 123 structs, calls a board init function for a specific device, 124 calls nand_scan(), and registers with mtd. 125 126 This arrangement does not provide drivers with the flexibility to 127 run code between nand_scan_ident() and nand_scan_tail(), or other 128 deviations from the "normal" flow. 129 130 If a board defines CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT, drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c 131 will make one call to board_nand_init(), with no arguments. That 132 function is responsible for calling a driver init function for 133 each NAND device on the board, that performs all initialization 134 tasks except setting mtd->name, and registering with the rest of 135 U-Boot. Those last tasks are accomplished by calling nand_register() 136 on the new mtd device. 137 138 Example of new init to be added to the end of an existing driver 139 init: 140 141 /* 142 * devnum is the device number to be used in nand commands 143 * and in mtd->name. Must be less than 144 * CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_DEVICE. 145 */ 146 mtd = &nand_info[devnum]; 147 148 /* chip is struct nand_chip, and is now provided by the driver. */ 149 mtd->priv = &chip; 150 151 /* 152 * Fill in appropriate values if this driver uses these fields, 153 * or uses the standard read_byte/write_buf/etc. functions from 154 * nand_base.c that use these fields. 155 */ 156 chip.IO_ADDR_R = ...; 157 chip.IO_ADDR_W = ...; 158 159 if (nand_scan_ident(mtd, CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_CHIPS, NULL)) 160 error out 161 162 /* 163 * Insert here any code you wish to run after the chip has been 164 * identified, but before any other I/O is done. 165 */ 166 167 if (nand_scan_tail(mtd)) 168 error out 169 170 if (nand_register(devnum)) 171 error out 172 173 In addition to providing more flexibility to the driver, it reduces 174 the difference between a U-Boot driver and its Linux counterpart. 175 nand_init() is now reduced to calling board_nand_init() once, and 176 printing a size summary. This should also make it easier to 177 transition to delayed NAND initialization. 178 179 Please convert your driver even if you don't need the extra 180 flexibility, so that one day we can eliminate the old mechanism. 181 182 183 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ONFI_DETECTION 184 Enables detection of ONFI compliant devices during probe. 185 And fetching device parameters flashed on device, by parsing 186 ONFI parameter page. 187 188 CONFIG_BCH 189 Enables software based BCH ECC algorithm present in lib/bch.c 190 This is used by SoC platforms which do not have built-in ELM 191 hardware engine required for BCH ECC correction. 192 193 194Platform specific options 195========================= 196 CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC 197 Enables omap_gpmc.c driver for OMAPx and AMxxxx platforms. 198 GPMC controller is used for parallel NAND flash devices, and can 199 do ECC calculation (not ECC error detection) for HAM1, BCH4, BCH8 200 and BCH16 ECC algorithms. 201 202 CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_ELM 203 Enables omap_elm.c driver for OMAPx and AMxxxx platforms. 204 ELM controller is used for ECC error detection (not ECC calculation) 205 of BCH4, BCH8 and BCH16 ECC algorithms. 206 Some legacy platforms like OMAP3xx do not have in-built ELM h/w engine, 207 thus such SoC platforms need to depend on software library for ECC error 208 detection. However ECC calculation on such plaforms would still be 209 done by GPMC controller. 210 211 CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_ECCSCHEME 212 On OMAP platforms, this CONFIG specifies NAND ECC scheme. 213 It can take following values: 214 OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW 215 1-bit Hamming code using software lib. 216 (for legacy devices only) 217 OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_HW 218 1-bit Hamming code using GPMC hardware. 219 (for legacy devices only) 220 OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW 221 4-bit BCH code (unsupported) 222 OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW 223 4-bit BCH code (unsupported) 224 OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW 225 8-bit BCH code with 226 - ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine, 227 - error detection using software library. 228 - requires CONFIG_BCH to enable software BCH library 229 (For legacy device which do not have ELM h/w engine) 230 OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW 231 8-bit BCH code with 232 - ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine, 233 - error detection using ELM hardware engine. 234 235NOTE: 236===== 237 238The current NAND implementation is based on what is in recent 239Linux kernels. The old legacy implementation has been removed. 240 241If you have board code which used CONFIG_NAND_LEGACY, you'll need 242to convert to the current NAND interface for it to continue to work. 243 244The Disk On Chip driver is currently broken and has been for some time. 245There is a driver in drivers/mtd/nand, taken from Linux, that works with 246the current NAND system but has not yet been adapted to the u-boot 247environment. 248 249Additional improvements to the NAND subsystem by Guido Classen, 10-10-2006 250 251JFFS2 related commands: 252 253 implement "nand erase clean" and old "nand erase" 254 using both the new code which is able to skip bad blocks 255 "nand erase clean" additionally writes JFFS2-cleanmarkers in the oob. 256 257Miscellaneous and testing commands: 258 "markbad [offset]" 259 create an artificial bad block (for testing bad block handling) 260 261 "scrub [offset length]" 262 like "erase" but don't skip bad block. Instead erase them. 263 DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only 264 to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command. 265 266 "torture offset" 267 Torture block to determine if it is still reliable. 268 Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE configuration option. 269 This command returns 0 if the block is still reliable, else 1. 270 If the block is detected as unreliable, it is up to the user to decide to 271 mark this block as bad. 272 The analyzed block is put through 3 erase / write cycles (or less if the block 273 is detected as unreliable earlier). 274 This command can be used in scripts, e.g. together with the markbad command to 275 automate retries and handling of possibly newly detected bad blocks if the 276 nand write command fails. 277 It can also be used manually by users having seen some NAND errors in logs to 278 search the root cause of these errors. 279 The underlying nand_torture() function is also useful for code willing to 280 automate actions following a nand->write() error. This would e.g. be required 281 in order to program or update safely firmware to NAND, especially for the UBI 282 part of such firmware. 283 284 285NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin) 286 287 "nand lock" 288 set NAND chip to lock state (all pages locked) 289 290 "nand lock tight" 291 set NAND chip to lock tight state (software can't change locking anymore) 292 293 "nand lock status" 294 displays current locking status of all pages 295 296 "nand unlock [offset] [size]" 297 unlock consecutive area (can be called multiple times for different areas) 298 299 "nand unlock.allexcept [offset] [size]" 300 unlock all except specified consecutive area 301 302I have tested the code with board containing 128MiB NAND large page chips 303and 32MiB small page chips. 304