1 NAND FLASH commands and notes
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31 Print a list of all of the bad blocks in the current device.
34 Print information about the current NAND device.
37 Make device `num' the current device and print information about it.
40 nand erase clean [off size]
41 Erase `size' bytes starting at offset `off'. Only complete erase
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.
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.
54 Print information about all of the NAND devices found.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
91 Configuration Options:
94 A good one to add to CONFIG_COMMANDS since it enables NAND support.
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.
103 The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
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
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()
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()
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()
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()
144 #define NAND_DISABLE_CE(nand)
145 Set CE (Chip Enable) low to enable the NAND flash.
147 #define NAND_ENABLE_CE(nand)
148 Set CE (Chip Enable) high to disable the NAND flash.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
173 #define SECTORSIZE 512
174 #define ADDR_COLUMN 1
176 #define ADDR_COLUMN_PAGE 3
177 #define NAND_ChipID_UNKNOWN 0x00
178 #define NAND_MAX_FLOORS 1
179 #define NAND_MAX_CHIPS 1
186 We now use a complete rewrite of the NAND code based on what is in
189 The old NAND handling code has been re-factored and is now confined
190 to only board-specific files and - unfortunately - to the DoC code
191 (see below). A new configuration variable has been introduced:
192 CFG_NAND_LEGACY, which has to be defined in the board config file if
193 that board uses legacy code. If CFG_NAND_LEGACY is defined, the board
194 specific config.mk file should also have "BOARDLIBS =
195 drivers/nand_legacy/libnand_legacy.a". For boards using the new NAND
196 approach (PPChameleon and netstar at the moment) no variable is
197 necessary, but the config.mk should have "BOARDLIBS =
198 drivers/nand/libnand.a".
200 The necessary changes have been made to all affected boards, and no
201 build breakage has been introduced, except for NETTA and NETTA_ISDN
202 targets from MAKEALL. This is due to the fact that these two boards
203 use JFFS, which has been adopted to use the new NAND, and at the same
204 time use NAND in legacy mode. The breakage will disappear when the
205 board-specific code is changed to the new NAND.
207 As mentioned above, the legacy code is still used by the DoC subsystem.
208 The consequence of this is that the legacy NAND can't be removed from
209 the tree until the DoC is ported to use the new NAND support (or boards
210 with DoC will break).