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1NAND FLASH commands and notes
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4See NOTE below!!!
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28Commands:
29
30   nand bad
31      Print a list of all of the bad blocks in the current device.
32
33   nand device
34      Print information about the current NAND device.
35
36   nand device num
37      Make device `num' the current device and print information about it.
38
39   nand erase off size
40   nand erase clean [off size]
41      Erase `size' bytes starting at offset `off'.  Only complete erase
42      blocks can be erased.
43
44      If `clean' is specified, a JFFS2-style clean marker is written to
45      each block after it is erased. If `clean' is specified without an
46      offset or size, the entire flash is erased.
47
48      This command will not erase blocks that are marked bad. There is
49      a debug option in cmd_nand.c to allow bad blocks to be erased.
50      Please read the warning there before using it, as blocks marked
51      bad by the manufacturer must _NEVER_ be erased.
52
53   nand info
54      Print information about all of the NAND devices found.
55
56   nand read addr ofs size
57      Read `size' bytes from `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. If a page
58      cannot be read because it is marked bad or an uncorrectable data
59      error is found the command stops with an error.
60
61   nand read.jffs2 addr ofs size
62      Like `read', but the data for blocks that are marked bad is read as
63      0xff. This gives a readable JFFS2 image that can be processed by
64      the JFFS2 commands such as ls and fsload.
65
66   nand read.oob addr ofs size
67      Read `size' bytes from the out-of-band data area corresponding to
68      `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This is limited to the 16 bytes of
69      data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
70      for bad blocks or ECC errors.
71
72   nand write addr ofs size
73      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash. If a page
74      cannot be written because it is marked bad or the write fails the
75      command stops with an error.
76
77   nand write.jffs2 addr ofs size
78      Like `write', but blocks that are marked bad are skipped and the
79      is written to the next block instead. This allows writing writing
80      a JFFS2 image, as long as the image is short enough to fit even
81      after skipping the bad blocks. Compact images, such as those
82      produced by mkfs.jffs2 should work well, but loading an image copied
83      from another flash is going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks.
84
85   nand write.oob addr ofs size
86      Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area
87      corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes
88      of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
89      for bad blocks.
90
91Configuration Options:
92
93   CFG_CMD_NAND
94      A good one to add to CONFIG_COMMANDS since it enables NAND support.
95
96   CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2
97      Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in
98      the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system.
99      CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_YAFFS would be another useful choice for
100      someone to implement.
101
102   CFG_MAX_NAND_DEVICE
103      The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
104
105NAND Interface:
106
107   #define NAND_WAIT_READY(nand)
108      Wait until the NAND flash is ready. Typically this would be a
109      loop waiting for the READY/BUSY line from the flash to indicate it
110      it is ready.
111
112   #define WRITE_NAND_COMMAND(d, adr)
113      Write the command byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
114      CLE (command latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
115      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
116      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
117      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETCLE()
118      and company do it.
119
120   #define WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS(d, adr)
121      Write the address byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
122      ALE (address latch enable) line true. If your board uses writes to
123      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
124      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
125      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_SETALE()
126      and company do it.
127
128   #define WRITE_NAND(d, adr)
129      Write the data byte `d' to the flash at `adr' with the
130      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses writes to
131      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
132      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
133      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
134      and company do it.
135
136   #define READ_NAND(adr)
137      Read a data byte from the flash at `adr' with the
138      ALE and CLE lines false. If your board uses reads from
139      different addresses to control CLE and ALE, you can modify `adr'
140      to be the appropriate address here. If your board uses I/O registers
141      to control them, it is probably better to let NAND_CTL_CLRALE()
142      and company do it.
143
144   #define NAND_DISABLE_CE(nand)
145      Set CE (Chip Enable) low to enable the NAND flash.
146
147   #define NAND_ENABLE_CE(nand)
148      Set CE (Chip Enable) high to disable the NAND flash.
149
150   #define NAND_CTL_CLRALE(nandptr)
151      Set ALE (address latch enable) low. If ALE control is handled by
152      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
153
154   #define NAND_CTL_SETALE(nandptr)
155      Set ALE (address latch enable) high. If ALE control is handled by
156      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
157
158   #define NAND_CTL_CLRCLE(nandptr)
159      Set CLE (command latch enable) low. If CLE control is handled by
160      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
161
162   #define NAND_CTL_SETCLE(nandptr)
163      Set CLE (command latch enable) high. If CLE control is handled by
164      WRITE_NAND_ADDRESS() this can be empty.
165
166More Definitions:
167
168   These definitions are needed in the board configuration for now, but
169   may really belong in a header file.
170   TODO: Figure which ones are truly configuration settings and rename
171	 them to CFG_NAND_... and move the rest somewhere appropriate.
172
173   #define SECTORSIZE 512
174   #define ADDR_COLUMN 1
175   #define ADDR_PAGE 2
176   #define ADDR_COLUMN_PAGE 3
177   #define NAND_ChipID_UNKNOWN 0x00
178   #define NAND_MAX_FLOORS 1
179   #define NAND_MAX_CHIPS 1
180
181
182NOTE:
183=====
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185We now use a complete rewrite of the NAND code based on what is in
1862.6.12 Linux kernel.
187
188The old NAND handling code has been re-factored and is now confined
189to only board-specific files and - unfortunately - to the DoC code
190(see below). A new configuration variable has been introduced:
191CFG_NAND_LEGACY, which has to be defined in the board config file if
192that board uses legacy code. If CFG_NAND_LEGACY is defined, the board
193specific config.mk file should also have "BOARDLIBS =
194drivers/nand_legacy/libnand_legacy.a". For boards using the new NAND
195approach (PPChameleon and netstar at the moment) no variable is
196necessary, but the config.mk should have "BOARDLIBS =
197drivers/nand/libnand.a".
198
199The necessary changes have been made to all affected boards, and no
200build breakage has been introduced, except for NETTA and NETTA_ISDN
201targets from MAKEALL. This is due to the fact that these two boards
202use JFFS, which has been adopted to use the new NAND, and at the same
203time use NAND in legacy mode. The breakage will disappear when the
204board-specific code is changed to the new NAND.
205
206As mentioned above, the legacy code is still used by the DoC subsystem.
207The consequence of this is that the legacy NAND can't be removed  from
208the tree until the DoC is ported to use the new NAND support (or boards
209with DoC will break).
210