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* [MTD] [NOR] Fix cfi_send_gen_cmd handling of x16 devices in x8 mode (v4)Eric W. Biederman2008-11-051-3/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For "unlock" cycles to 16bit devices in 8bit compatibility mode we need to use the byte addresses 0xaaa and 0x555. These effectively match the word address 0x555 and 0x2aa, except the latter has its low bit set. Most chips don't care about the value of the 'A-1' pin in x8 mode, but some -- like the ST M29W320D -- do. So we need to be careful to set it where appropriate. cfi_send_gen_cmd is only ever passed addresses where the low byte is 0x00, 0x55 or 0xaa. Of those, only addresses ending 0xaa are affected by this patch, by masking in the extra low bit when the device is known to be in compatibility mode. [dwmw2: Do it only when (cmd_ofs & 0xff) == 0xaa] v4: Fix stupid typo in cfi_build_cmd_addr that failed to compile I'm writing this patch way to late at night. v3: Bring all of the work back into cfi_build_cmd_addr including calling of map_bankwidth(map) and cfi_interleave(cfi) So every caller doesn't need to. v2: Only modified the address if we our device_type is larger than our bus width. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-10-208-3/+162
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (69 commits) Revert "[MTD] m25p80.c code cleanup" [MTD] [NAND] GPIO driver depends on ARM... for now. [MTD] [NAND] sh_flctl: fix compile error [MTD] [NOR] AT49BV6416 has swapped erase regions [MTD] [NAND] GPIO NAND flash driver [MTD] cmdlineparts documentation change - explain where mtd-id comes from [MTD] cfi_cmdset_0002.c: Add Macronix CFI V1.0 TopBottom detection [MTD] [NAND] Fix compilation warnings in drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c [JFFS2] Write buffer offset adjustment for NOR-ECC (Sibley) flash [MTD] mtdoops: Fix a bug where block may not be erased [MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops [MTD] mtdoops: Fix an off by one error [JFFS2] Correct parameter names of jffs2_compress() in comments [MTD] [NAND] sh_flctl: add support for Renesas SuperH FLCTL [MTD] [NAND] Bug on atmel_nand HW ECC : OOB info not correctly written [MTD] [MAPS] Remove unused variable after ROM API cleanup. [MTD] m25p80.c extended jedec support (v2) [MTD] remove unused mtd parameter in of_mtd_parse_partitions() [MTD] [NAND] remove dead Kconfig associated with !CONFIG_PPC_MERGE [MTD] [NAND] driver extension to support NAND on TQM85xx modules ...
| * [MTD] [NAND] GPIO NAND flash driverMike Rapoport2008-10-181-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch adds support for NAND flashes connected to GPIOs. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [NAND] sh_flctl: add support for Renesas SuperH FLCTLYoshihiro Shimoda2008-10-141-0/+125
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several Renesas SuperH CPU has FLCTL. The FLCTL support NAND Flash. This driver support SH7723. Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <shimoda.yoshihiro@renesas.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] remove unused mtd parameter in of_mtd_parse_partitions()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior2008-10-131-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [NAND] Fix missing kernel-docAlexey Korolev2008-08-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | [Reported by Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] Define and use MTD_FAIL_ADDR_UNKNOWN instead of 0xffffffffAdrian Hunter2008-08-121-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [NOR] Rename and export new cfi_qry_*() functionsDavid Woodhouse2008-08-071-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They need to be exported, so let's give them less generic-sounding names while we're at it. Original export patch, along with the suggestion about the nomenclature, from Stephen Rothwell. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [NOR] cfi_cmdset_0001: Timeouts for erase, write and unlock operationsAnders Grafström2008-08-061-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Timeouts are currently given by the typical operation time times 8. It works in the general well-behaved case but not when an erase block is failing. For erase operations, it seems that a failing erase block will keep the device state machine in erasing state until the vendor specified maximum timeout period has passed. By this time the driver would have long since timed out, left erasing state and attempted further operations which all fail. This patch implements timeouts using values from the CFI Query structure when available. The patch also sets a longer timeout for locking operations. The current value used for locking/unlocking given by 1000000/HZ microseconds is too short for devices like J3 and J5 Strataflash which have a typical clear lock-bits time of 0.5 seconds. Signed-off-by: Anders Grafström <grfstrm@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [NOR] Add qry_mode_on()/qry_omde_off() to deal with odd chipsAlexey Korolev2008-08-061-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are some CFI chips which require non standard procedures to get into QRY mode. The possible way to support them would be trying different modes till QRY will be read. This patch introduce two new functions qry_mode_on qry_mode_off. qry_mode_on tries different commands in order switch chip into QRY mode. So if we have one more "odd" chip - we just could add several lines to qry_mode_on. Also using these functions remove unnecessary code duplicaton in porbe procedure. Currently there are two "odd" cases 1. Some old intel chips which require 0xFF before 0x98 2. ST M29DW chip which requires 0x98 to be sent at 0x555 (according to CFI should be 0x55) This patch is partialy based on the patch from Uwe (see "[PATCH 2/4] [RFC][MTD] cfi_probe: remove Intel chip workaround" thread ) Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Belyakov <abelyako@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * [MTD] [OneNAND] Add defines for HF and sync writeAdrian Hunter2008-08-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* | Support 'discard sectors' operation in translation layer support coreDavid Woodhouse2008-10-091-0/+2
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [MTD] MTD_DEBUG always does compile-time typechecksDavid Brownell2008-07-301-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | The current style for debug messages is to ensure they're always parsed by the compiler and then subjected to dead code removal. That way builds won't break only when debug options get enabled, which is common when they are stripped out early by CPP. This patch makes CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG adopt that convention. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* [MTD] [NAND] fix subpage read for small page NANDAlexey Korolev2008-07-301-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current implementation of subpage read feature for NAND has issues with small page devices. Small page NAND do not support RNDOUT command. So subpage feature is not applicable for them. This patch disables support of subpage for small page NAND. The code is verified on nandsim(SP NAND simulation) and on LP NAND devices. Thanks a lot to Artem for finding this issue. Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* [MTD] [NAND] subpage read feature as a way to increase performance. Alexey Korolev2008-07-251-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables NAND subpage read functionality. If upper layer drivers are requesting to read non page aligned data NAND subpage-read functionality reads the only whose ECC regions which include requested data when original code reads whole page. This significantly improves performance in many cases. Here are some digits : UBI volume mount time No subpage reads: 5.75 seconds Subpage read patch: 2.42 seconds Open/stat time for files on JFFS2 volume: No subpage read 0m 5.36s Subpage read 0m 2.88s Signed-off-by Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6David Woodhouse2008-07-253-4/+5
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| * UBI: amend commentariesArtem Bityutskiy2008-07-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hch asked not to use "unit" for sub-systems, let it be so. Also some other commentaries modifications. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
| * UBI: add ubi_sync() interfaceArtem Bityutskiy2008-07-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | To flush MTD device caches. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
| * MTD: handle pci_name() being constGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-07-212-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This changes the MTD core to handle pci_name() now returning a constant string. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse2008-07-111-1/+1
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| * Fix various old email addresses for dwmw2David Woodhouse2008-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although if people have questions about ARCnet, perhaps it's _better_ for them to be mailing dwmw2@cam.ac.uk about it... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | MTD/JFFS2: remove CVS keywordsAdrian Bunk2008-06-0419-42/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Once upon a time, the MTD repository was using CVS. This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS keywords from the MTD code. This also includes code that printed them to the user. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD][NOR] Add physical address to point() methodJared Hulbert2008-05-012-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | Adding the ability to get a physical address from point() in addition to virtual address. This physical address is required for XIP of userspace code from flash. Signed-off-by: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Delete long-unused jedec.h header file.Robert P. J. Day2008-04-261-66/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [MAPS] Extend plat-ram to support a supplied probe typeFlorian Fainelli2008-04-221-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This enhances plat-ram to take a map_probes argument in the platform_data structure which allow plat-ram to support any direct-mapped device that MTD supports (jedec, cfi, amd ..) A few items are also fixed: - Don't panic if probes is 0 - Actually use the partition list that is passed in Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [OneNAND] proper onenand_bbt_read_oob() prototypeAdrian Bunk2008-04-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | This patch adds a proper prototype for onenand_bbt_read_oob() in include/linux/mtd/onenand.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] proper prototypes for nftl_{read,write}_oob()Adrian Bunk2008-04-221-0/+5
| | | | | | | | This patch adds proper prototypes for nftl_{read,write}_oob() in include/linux/mtd/nftl.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] proper prototypes for inftl_{read,write}_oob()Adrian Bunk2008-04-221-0/+5
| | | | | | | | This patch adds proper prototypes for inftl_{read,write}_oob() in include/linux/mtd/inftl.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Add mtd panic_write function pointerRichard Purdie2008-02-071-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MTDs are well suited for logging critical data and the mtdoops driver allows kernel panics/oops to be written to flash in a blackbox flight recorder fashion allowing better debugging and analysis of crashes. Any kernel oops in user context can be easily handled since the kernel continues as normal and any queued mtd writes are scheduled. Any kernel oops in interrupt context results in a panic and the delayed writes will not be scheduled however. The existing mtd->write function cannot be called in interrupt context so these messages can never be written to flash. This patch adds a panic_write function pointer that drivers can optionally implement which can be called in interrupt context. It is only intended to be called when its known the kernel is about to panic and we need to write to succeed. Since the kernel is not going to be running for much longer, this function can break locks and delay to ensure the write succeeds (but not sleep). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6David Woodhouse2008-02-031-17/+0
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| * UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctlArtem Bityutskiy2008-01-251-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have to be able to change individual LEBs for utilities like ubifsck, ubifstune. For example, ubifsck has to be able to fix errors on the media, ubifstune has to be able to change the the superblock, hence this ioctl. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* | Merge git://git.infradead.org/~kmpark/onenand-mtd-2.6David Woodhouse2008-02-031-0/+1
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| * | [MTD] [OneNAND] Get correct density from device IDKyungmin Park2008-01-291-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | Use the higher bits for other purpose. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
* | [MTD] Factor out OF partition support from the NOR driver.Scott Wood2008-02-031-1/+8
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [NOR] Fix incorrect interface code for x16/x32 chipsBartlomiej Sieka2008-01-101-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | According to "Common Flash Memory Interface Publication 100" dated December 1, 2001, the interface code for x16/x32 chips is 0x0005, and not 0x0004 used so far. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Sieka <tur@semihalf.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* UBI: add ubi_leb_map interfaceArtem Bityutskiy2007-12-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea of this interface belongs to Adrian Hunter. The interface is extremely useful when one has to have a guarantee that an LEB will contain all 0xFFs even in case of an unclean reboot. UBI does have an 'ubi_leb_erase()' call which may do this, but it is stupid and ineffecient, because it flushes whole queue. I should be re-worked to just be a pair of unmap, map calls. The user of the interfaci is UBIFS at the moment. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* [MTD] Provide mtdram.h with mtdram_init_device() prototypeJesper Nilsson2007-11-061-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | This is used by axisflashmap.c to boot from ram. Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [NOR] fix ctrl-alt-del can't reboot for intel flash bugKevin Hao2007-10-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | When we press ctrl-alt-del,kernel_restart_prepare will invoke cfi_intelext_reboot which will set flash to read array mode, but later when device_shutdown is invoked which may put current work queue to sleep and other process may be scheduled to running and programming flash in not FL_READY mode again. So we can't boot up if this flash is used for bootloader. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Document erase interface.Jörn Engel2007-09-211-0/+7
| | | | | | | Document mtd erase interface. Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Fix CFI build error when no map width or interleave supportedDavid Woodhouse2007-09-062-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When building NOR flash support, you have compile-time options for the bus width and the number of individual chips which are interleaved together onto that bus. The code to deal with arbitrary geometry is a bit convoluted, and people want to just configure it for the specific hardware they have, to avoid the runtime overhead. Selecting _none_ of the available options doesn't make any sense. You should have at least one. This makes it build though, since people persist in trying. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [NAND] Add NAND manufacturer AMD.Steven J. Hill2007-07-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | This patch adds the manufacturer ID for AMD flash. Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <sjhill1@rockwellcollins.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [OneNAND] 2X program supportKyungmin Park2007-06-302-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 2X Program is an extension of Program Operation. Since the device is equipped with two DataRAMs, and two-plane NAND Flash memory array, these two component enables simultaneous program of 4KiB. Plane1 has only even blocks such as block0, block2, block4 while Plane2 has only odd blocks such as block1, block3, block5. So MTD regards it as 4KiB page size and 256KiB block size Now the following chips support it. (KFXXX16Q2M) Demux: KFG2G16Q2M, KFH4G16Q2M, KFW8G16Q2M, Mux: KFM2G16Q2M, KFN4G16Q2M, And more recent chips Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocksDavid Howells2007-05-111-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | Generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks so that JFFS2 and ROMFS can both share it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info.Robert P. J. Day2007-05-091-3/+0
| | | | | | | Delete the allegedly obsolete "bank_size" member of struct mtd_info. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] Remove unnecessary user space check from mtd.h.Robert P. J. Day2007-05-091-4/+0
| | | | | | | | Since the header file include/linux/mtd/mtd.h is not exported to user space, remove the user space check and error. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: update headerVitaly Wool2007-05-081-0/+16
| | | | | | | | This patch extends nand.h in order to enable platform NAND driver. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse2007-04-271-0/+202
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/mtd/Kconfig Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * UBI: Unsorted Block ImagesArtem B. Bityutskiy2007-04-271-0/+202
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling across the whole flash device. In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks. More information may be found at http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html Partitioning/Re-partitioning An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit. UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums. Bad eraseblocks handling UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this. Scrubbing On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation, sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate, correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users. Erase Counts UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm itself is exchangeable. Booting from NAND For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This "initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to load and execute the next boot phase. Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume. UBI volumes vs. static partitions UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions: * both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions; * both support three basic operations - read, write, erase. But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional static MTD partitions: * there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI volumes, so the user should not care about this; * there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes. So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed restrictions. Where can it be found? Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD gits. What are the applications for? The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content analysis after a system has crashed.. Who did UBI? The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem. Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements. Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
* | [MTD][NAND] Add Micron Manufacturer IDsshahrom@micron.com2007-04-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Micron Manufacturer ID. Signed-off-by: Shahrom Sharif <sshahrom@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] [NOR] Support for auto locking flash on power upRodolfo Giometti2007-04-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Auto unlock sectors on resume for auto locking flash on power up. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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