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+This document provides some notes about the ARM pl353 SMC controller used in
+Zynq SOC and confined to NAND specific details.
+
+Overview of the controller
+==========================
+ The SMC (PL353) supports two memory interfaces:
+ Interface 0 type SRAM.
+ Interface 1 type NAND.
+ This configuration supports the following configurable options:
+ . 32-bit or 64-bit AXI data width
+ . 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit memory data width for interface 0
+ . 8-bit, or 16-bit memory data width for interface 1
+ . 1-4 chip selects on each interface
+ . SLC ECC block for interface 1
+
+For more information, refer the below link for TRM
+http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0380g/DDI0380G_smc_pl350_series_r2p1_trm.pdf
+
+NAND memory accesses
+====================
+ . Two phase NAND accesses
+ . NAND command phase transfers
+ . NAND data phase transfers
+
+Two phase NAND accesses
+ The SMC defines two phases of commands when transferring data to or from
+NAND flash.
+
+Command phase
+ Commands and optional address information are written to the NAND flash.
+The command and address can be associated with either a data phase operation to
+write to or read from the array, or a status/ID register transfer.
+
+Data phase
+ Data is either written to or read from the NAND flash. This data can be either
+data transferred to or from the array, or status/ID register information.
+
+NAND AXI address setup
+ AXI address Command phase Data phase
+ [31:24] Chip address Chip address
+ [23] NoOfAddCycles_2 Reserved
+ [22] NoOfAddCycles_1 Reserved
+ [21] NoOfAddCycles_0 ClearCS
+ [20] End command valid End command valid
+ [19] 0 1
+ [18:11] End command End command
+ [10:3] Start command [10] ECC Last
+ [9:3] Reserved
+ [2:0] Reserved Reserved
+
+ECC
+===
+ It operates on a number of 512 byte blocks of NAND memory and can be
+programmed to store the ECC codes after the data in memory. For writes,
+the ECC is written to the spare area of the page. For reads, the result of
+a block ECC check are made available to the device driver.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| n * 512 blocks | extra | ecc | |
+| | block | codes | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The ECC calculation uses a simple Hamming code, using 1-bit correction 2-bit
+detection. It starts when a valid read or write command with a 512 byte aligned
+address is detected on the memory interface.
+
+Driver details
+==============
+ The NAND driver has dependency with the pl353_smc memory controller
+driver for initializing the NAND timing parameters, bus width, ECC modes,
+control and status information.
+
+Since the controller expects that the chip select bit would be cleared for the
+last data transfer i.e last 4 data bytes, the existing nand page
+read/write routines for soft ECC and ECC none modes will not work. So, in order
+to make this driver work, it always updates the ECC mode as HW ECC and
+implements the page read/write functions for supporting the SW ECC.
+i.e. There is a limitation in SMC controller, that we must set ECC LAST on
+last data phase access, to tell ECC block not to expect any data further.
+Ex: When number of ECC STEPS are 4, then till 3 we will write to flash
+using SMC with HW ECC enabled. And for the last ECC STEP, we will subtract
+4bytes from page size, and will initiate a transfer. And the remaining 4 as
+one more transfer with ECC_LAST bit set in NAND data phase register to notify
+ECC block not to expect any more data. The last block should be align with end
+of 512 byte block. Because of this limitation, we are not using core routines.
+
+HW ECC mode:
+ Up to 2K page size is supported and beyond that it returns
+-ENOTSUPPORT error. If the flash has on-die ECC controller then the
+priority is given to the on-die ECC controller. Also the current
+implementation has support for up to 64 bytes of OOB data.
+
+SW ECC mode:
+ It supports all the page sizes. But since, Zynq SOC bootrom uses
+HW ECC for the devices that have page <= 2K. so, When the kernel is not
+aware of the ECC mode, it uses HW ECC by default.
+
+For devicetree binding information please refer to the below dt binding file
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/pl353-smc.txt.
Added notes about the controller and driver Signed-off-by: Naga Sureshkumar Relli <naga.sureshkumar.relli@xilinx.com> --- Changes in v9: - Addressed the comments given by Miquel and Randy Changes in v8 - None Changes in v7: - None Changes in v6: - None Changes in v5: - Fixed the review comments Changes in v4: - None --- Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/mtd/nand/pl353-nand.txt