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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'. If a page
61      cannot be read because it is marked bad or an uncorrectable data
62      error is found the command stops with an error.
63
64   nand read.jffs2 addr ofs|partition size
65      Like `read', but the data for blocks that are marked bad is read as
66      0xff. This gives a readable JFFS2 image that can be processed by
67      the JFFS2 commands such as ls and fsload.
68
69   nand read.oob addr ofs|partition size
70      Read `size' bytes from the out-of-band data area corresponding to
71      `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This is limited to the 16 bytes of
72      data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
73      for bad blocks or ECC errors.
74
75   nand write addr ofs|partition size
76      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash. If a page
77      cannot be written because it is marked bad or the write fails the
78      command stops with an error.
79
80   nand write.jffs2 addr ofs|partition size
81      Like `write', but blocks that are marked bad are skipped and the
82      is written to the next block instead. This allows writing writing
83      a JFFS2 image, as long as the image is short enough to fit even
84      after skipping the bad blocks. Compact images, such as those
85      produced by mkfs.jffs2 should work well, but loading an image copied
86      from another flash is going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks.
87
88   nand write.oob addr ofs|partition size
89      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area
90      corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes
91      of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
92      for bad blocks.
93
94Configuration Options:
95
96   CFG_CMD_NAND
97      A good one to add to CONFIG_COMMANDS since it enables NAND support.
98
99   CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2
100      Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in
101      the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system.
102      CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_YAFFS would be another useful choice for
103      someone to implement.
104
105   CFG_MAX_NAND_DEVICE
106      The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
107
108NAND Interface:
109
110   #define NAND_WAIT_READY(nand)
111      Wait until the NAND flash is ready. Typically this would be a
112      loop waiting for the READY/BUSY line from the flash to indicate it
113      it is ready.
114
115   #define WRITE_NAND_COMMAND(d, adr)
116      Write the command byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
117      CLE (command latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
118      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
119      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
120      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETCLE()
121      and company do it.
122
123   #define WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS(d, adr)
124      Write the address byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
125      ALE (address latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
126      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
127      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
128      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETALE()
129      and company do it.
130
131   #define WRITE_NAND(d, adr)
132      Write the data byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
133      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses writes to
134      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
135      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
136      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
137      and company do it.
138
139   #define READ_NAND(adr)
140      Read a data byte from the flash at `adr' with the
141      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses reads from
142      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
143      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
144      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
145      and company do it.
146
147   #define NAND_DISABLE_CE(nand)
148      Set CE (Chip Enable) low to enable the NAND flash.
149
150   #define NAND_ENABLE_CE(nand)
151      Set CE (Chip Enable) high to disable the NAND flash.
152
153   #define NAND_CTL_CLRALE(nandptr)
154      Set ALE (address latch enable) low. If ALE control is handled by
155      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
156
157   #define NAND_CTL_SETALE(nandptr)
158      Set ALE (address latch enable) high. If ALE control is handled by
159      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
160
161   #define NAND_CTL_CLRCLE(nandptr)
162      Set CLE (command latch enable) low. If CLE control is handled by
163      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
164
165   #define NAND_CTL_SETCLE(nandptr)
166      Set CLE (command latch enable) high. If CLE control is handled by
167      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
168
169More Definitions:
170
171   These definitions are needed in the board configuration for now, but
172   may really belong in a header file.
173   TODO: Figure which ones are truly configuration settings and rename
174	 them to CFG_NAND_... and move the rest somewhere appropriate.
175
176   #define SECTORSIZE 512
177   #define ADDR_COLUMN 1
178   #define ADDR_PAGE 2
179   #define ADDR_COLUMN_PAGE 3
180   #define NAND_ChipID_UNKNOWN 0x00
181   #define NAND_MAX_FLOORS 1
182   #define NAND_MAX_CHIPS 1
183
184
185NOTE:
186=====
187
188We now use a complete rewrite of the NAND code based on what is in
1892.6.12 Linux kernel.
190
191The old NAND handling code has been re-factored and is now confined
192to only board-specific files and - unfortunately - to the DoC code
193(see below). A new configuration variable has been introduced:
194CFG_NAND_LEGACY, which has to be defined in the board config file if
195that board uses legacy code.
196
197The necessary changes have been made to all affected boards, and no
198build breakage has been introduced, except for NETTA and NETTA_ISDN
199targets from MAKEALL. This is due to the fact that these two boards
200use JFFS, which has been adopted to use the new NAND, and at the same
201time use NAND in legacy mode. The breakage will disappear when the
202board-specific code is changed to the new NAND.
203
204As mentioned above, the legacy code is still used by the DoC subsystem.
205The consequence of this is that the legacy NAND can't be removed  from
206the tree until the DoC is ported to use the new NAND support (or boards
207with DoC will break).
208
209
210Additional improvements to the NAND subsystem by Guido Classen, 10-10-2006
211
212JFFS2 related commands:
213
214  implement "nand erase clean" and old "nand erase"
215  using both the new code which is able to skip bad blocks
216  "nand erase clean" additionally writes JFFS2-cleanmarkers in the oob.
217
218  "nand write.jffs2"
219  like "nand write" but skip found bad eraseblocks
220
221  "nand read.jffs2"
222  like "nand read" but skip found bad eraseblocks
223
224Miscellaneous and testing commands:
225  "markbad [offset]"
226  create an artificial bad block (for testing bad block handling)
227
228  "scrub [offset length]"
229  like "erase" but don't skip bad block. Instead erase them.
230  DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only
231  to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command.
232
233
234NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin)
235
236  "nand lock"
237  set NAND chip to lock state (all pages locked)
238
239  "nand lock tight"
240  set NAND chip to lock tight state (software can't change locking anymore)
241
242  "nand lock status"
243  displays current locking status of all pages
244
245  "nand unlock [offset] [size]"
246  unlock consecutive area (can be called multiple times for different areas)
247
248
249I have tested the code with board containing 128MiB NAND large page chips
250and 32MiB small page chips.
251