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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
<book id="MTD-NAND-Guide">
<bookinfo>
<title>MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Thomas</firstname>
<surname>Gleixner</surname>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>2004</year>
<holder>Thomas Gleixner</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
</para>
<para>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.
</para>
<para>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307 USA
</para>
<para>
For more details see the file COPYING in the source
distribution of Linux.
</para>
</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>
<toc></toc>
<chapter id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
The generic NAND driver supports almost all NAND and AG-AND based
chips and connects them to the Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
subsystem of the Linux Kernel.
</para>
<para>
This documentation is provided for developers who want to implement
board drivers or filesystem drivers suitable for NAND devices.
</para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="bugs">
<title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
<para>
None.
</para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="dochints">
<title>Documentation hints</title>
<para>
The function and structure docs are autogenerated. Each function and
struct member has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] identifier.
The following chapters explain the meaning of those identifiers.
</para>
<sect1 id="Function_identifiers_XXX">
<title>Function identifiers [XXX]</title>
<para>
The functions are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the short
comment. The identifiers explain the usage and scope of the
functions. Following identifiers are used:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
[MTD Interface]</para><para>
These functions provide the interface to the MTD kernel API.
They are not replacable and provide functionality
which is complete hardware independent.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[NAND Interface]</para><para>
These functions are exported and provide the interface to the NAND kernel API.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[GENERIC]</para><para>
Generic functions are not replacable and provide functionality
which is complete hardware independent.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[DEFAULT]</para><para>
Default functions provide hardware related functionality which is suitable
for most of the implementations. These functions can be replaced by the
board driver if neccecary. Those functions are called via pointers in the
NAND chip description structure. The board driver can set the functions which
should be replaced by board dependent functions before calling nand_scan().
If the function pointer is NULL on entry to nand_scan() then the pointer
is set to the default function which is suitable for the detected chip type.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Struct_member_identifiers_XXX">
<title>Struct member identifiers [XXX]</title>
<para>
The struct members are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the
comment. The identifiers explain the usage and scope of the
members. Following identifiers are used:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
[INTERN]</para><para>
These members are for NAND driver internal use only and must not be
modified. Most of these values are calculated from the chip geometry
information which is evaluated during nand_scan().
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[REPLACEABLE]</para><para>
Replaceable members hold hardware related functions which can be
provided by the board driver. The board driver can set the functions which
should be replaced by board dependent functions before calling nand_scan().
If the function pointer is NULL on entry to nand_scan() then the pointer
is set to the default function which is suitable for the detected chip type.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[BOARDSPECIFIC]</para><para>
Board specific members hold hardware related information which must
be provided by the board driver. The board driver must set the function
pointers and datafields before calling nand_scan().
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
[OPTIONAL]</para><para>
Optional members can hold information relevant for the board driver. The
generic NAND driver code does not use this information.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="basicboarddriver">
<title>Basic board driver</title>
<para>
For most boards it will be sufficient to provide just the
basic functions and fill out some really board dependent
members in the nand chip description structure.
</para>
<sect1 id="Basic_defines">
<title>Basic defines</title>
<para>
At least you have to provide a mtd structure and
a storage for the ioremap'ed chip address.
You can allocate the mtd structure using kmalloc
or you can allocate it statically.
In case of static allocation you have to allocate
a nand_chip structure too.
</para>
<para>
Kmalloc based example
</para>
<programlisting>
static struct mtd_info *board_mtd;
static unsigned long baseaddr;
</programlisting>
<para>
Static example
</para>
<programlisting>
static struct mtd_info board_mtd;
static struct nand_chip board_chip;
static unsigned long baseaddr;
</programlisting>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Partition_defines">
<title>Partition defines</title>
<para>
If you want to divide your device into partitions, then
enable the configuration switch CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS and define
a partitioning scheme suitable to your board.
</para>
<programlisting>
#define NUM_PARTITIONS 2
static struct mtd_partition partition_info[] = {
{ .name = "Flash partition 1",
.offset = 0,
.size = 8 * 1024 * 1024 },
{ .name = "Flash partition 2",
.offset = MTDPART_OFS_NEXT,
.size = MTDPART_SIZ_FULL },
};
</programlisting>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Hardware_control_functions">
<title>Hardware control function</title>
<para>
The hardware control function provides access to the
control pins of the NAND chip(s).
The access can be done by GPIO pins or by address lines.
If you use address lines, make sure that the timing
requirements are met.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>GPIO based example</emphasis>
</para>
<programlisting>
static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd)
{
switch(cmd){
case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: /* Set CLE pin high */ break;
case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: /* Set CLE pin low */ break;
case NAND_CTL_SETALE: /* Set ALE pin high */ break;
case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: /* Set ALE pin low */ break;
case NAND_CTL_SETNCE: /* Set nCE pin low */ break;
case NAND_CTL_CLRNCE: /* Set nCE pin high */ break;
}
}
</programlisting>
<para>
<emphasis>Address lines based example.</emphasis> It's assumed that the
nCE pin is driven by a chip select decoder.
</para>
<programlisting>
static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd)
{
struct nand_chip *this = (struct nand_chip *) mtd->priv;
switch(cmd){
case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= CLE_ADRR_BIT; break;
case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~CLE_ADRR_BIT; break;
case NAND_CTL_SETALE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= ALE_ADRR_BIT; break;
case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~ALE_ADRR_BIT; break;
}
}
</programlisting>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Device_ready_function">
<title>Device ready function</title>
<para>
If the hardware interface has the ready busy pin of the NAND chip connected to a
GPIO or other accesible I/O pin, this function is used to read back the state of the
pin. The function has no arguments and should return 0, if the device is busy (R/B pin
is low) and 1, if the device is ready (R/B pin is high).
If the hardware interface does not give access to the ready busy pin, then
the function must not be defined and the function pointer this->dev_ready is set to NULL.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Init_function">
<title>Init function</title>
<para>
The init function allocates memory and sets up all the board
specific parameters and function pointers. When everything
is set up nand_scan() is called. This function tries to
detect and identify then chip. If a chip is found all the
internal data fields are initialized accordingly.
The structure(s) have to be zeroed out first and then filled with the neccecary
information about the device.
</para>
<programlisting>
int __init board_init (void)
{
struct nand_chip *this;
int err = 0;
/* Allocate memory for MTD device structure and private data */
board_mtd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!board_mtd) {
printk ("Unable to allocate NAND MTD device structure.\n");
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
/* map physical address */
baseaddr = (unsigned long)ioremap(CHIP_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, 1024);
if(!baseaddr){
printk("Ioremap to access NAND chip failed\n");
err = -EIO;
goto out_mtd;
}
/* Get pointer to private data */
this = (struct nand_chip *) ();
/* Link the private data with the MTD structure */
board_mtd->priv = this;
/* Set address of NAND IO lines */
this->IO_ADDR_R = baseaddr;
this->IO_ADDR_W = baseaddr;
/* Reference hardware control function */
this->hwcontrol = board_hwcontrol;
/* Set command delay time, see datasheet for correct value */
this->chip_delay = CHIP_DEPENDEND_COMMAND_DELAY;
/* Assign the device ready function, if available */
this->dev_ready = board_dev_ready;
this->eccmode = NAND_ECC_SOFT;
/* Scan to find existence of the device */
if (nand_scan (board_mtd, 1)) {
err = -ENXIO;
goto out_ior;
}
add_mtd_partitions(board_mtd, partition_info, NUM_PARTITIONS);
goto out;
out_ior:
iounmap((void *)baseaddr);
out_mtd:
kfree (board_mtd);
out:
return err;
}
module_init(board_init);
</programlisting>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Exit_function">
<title>Exit function</title>
<para>
The exit function is only neccecary if the driver is
compiled as a module. It releases all resources which
are held by the chip driver and unregisters the partitions
in the MTD layer.
</para>
<programlisting>
#ifdef MODULE
static void __exit board_cleanup (void)
{
/* Release resources, unregister device */
nand_release (board_mtd);
/* unmap physical address */
iounmap((void *)baseaddr);
/* Free the MTD device structure */
kfree (board_mtd);
}
module_exit(board_cleanup);
#endif
</programlisting>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="boarddriversadvanced">
<title>Advanced board driver functions</title>
<para>
This chapter describes the advanced functionality of the NAND
driver. For a list of functions which can be overridden by the board
driver see the documentation of the nand_chip structure.
</para>
<sect1 id="Multiple_chip_control">
<title>Multiple chip control</title>
<para>
The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefor the
board driver must provide an own select_chip function. This
function must (de)select the requested chip.
The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must
be set before calling nand_scan(). The maxchip parameter
of nand_scan() defines the maximum number of chips to
scan for. Make sure that the select_chip function can
handle the requested number of chips.
</para>
<para>
The nand driver concatenates the chips to one virtual
chip and provides this virtual chip to the MTD layer.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Note: The driver can only handle linear chip arrays
of equally sized chips. There is no support for
parallel arrays which extend the buswidth.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>GPIO based example</emphasis>
</para>
<programlisting>
static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
{
/* Deselect all chips, set all nCE pins high */
GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) |= 0xff;
if (chip >= 0)
GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) &= ~ (1 << chip);
}
</programlisting>
<para>
<emphasis>Address lines based example.</emphasis>
Its assumed that the nCE pins are connected to an
address decoder.
</para>
<programlisting>
static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip)
{
struct nand_chip *this = (struct nand_chip *) mtd->priv;
/* Deselect all chips */
this->IO_ADDR_R &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK;
this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK;
switch (chip) {
case 0:
this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0;
this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0;
break;
....
case n:
this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn;
this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn;
break;
}
}
</programlisting>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Hardware_ECC_support">
<title>Hardware ECC support</title>
<sect2 id="Functions_and_constants">
<title>Functions and constants</title>
<para>
The nand driver supports three different types of
hardware ECC.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW3_256</para><para>
Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per
256 byte.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW3_512</para><para>
Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per
512 byte.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW6_512</para><para>
Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per
512 byte.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>NAND_ECC_HW8_512</para><para>
Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per
512 byte.
</para> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
If your hardware generator has a different functionality
add it at the appropriate place in nand_base.c
</para>
<para>
The board driver must provide following functions:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>enable_hwecc</para><para>
This function is called before reading / writing to
the chip. Reset or initialize the hardware generator
in this function. The function is called with an
argument which let you distinguish between read
and write operations.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>calculate_ecc</para><para>
This function is called after read / write from / to
the chip. Transfer the ECC from the hardware to
the buffer. If the option NAND_HWECC_SYNDROME is set
then the function is only called on write. See below.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>correct_data</para><para>
In case of an ECC error this function is called for
error detection and correction. Return 1 respectively 2
in case the error can be corrected. If the error is
not correctable return -1. If your hardware generator
matches the default algorithm of the nand_ecc software
generator then use the correction function provided
by nand_ecc instead of implementing duplicated code.
</para> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="Hardware_ECC_with_syndrome_calculation">
<title>Hardware ECC with syndrome calculation</title>
<para>
Many hardware ECC implementations provide Reed-Solomon
codes and calculate an error syndrome on read. The syndrome
must be converted to a standard Reed-Solomon syndrome
before calling the error correction code in the generic
Reed-Solomon library.
</para>
<para>
The ECC bytes must be placed immidiately after the data
bytes in order to make the syndrome generator work. This
is contrary to the usual layout used by software ECC. The
seperation of data and out of band area is not longer
possible. The nand driver code handles this layout and
the remaining free bytes in the oob area are managed by
the autoplacement code. Provide a matching oob-layout
in this case. See rts_from4.c and diskonchip.c for
implementation reference. In those cases we must also
use bad block tables on FLASH, because the ECC layout is
interferring with the bad block marker positions.
See bad block table support for details.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Bad_Block_table_support">
<title>Bad block table support</title>
<para>
Most NAND chips mark the bad blocks at a defined
position in the spare area. Those blocks must
not be erased under any circumstances as the bad
block information would be lost.
It is possible to check the bad block mark each
time when the blocks are accessed by reading the
spare area of the first page in the block. This
is time consuming so a bad block table is used.
</para>
<para>
The nand driver supports various types of bad block
tables.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Per device</para><para>
The bad block table contains all bad block information
of the device which can consist of multiple chips.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>Per chip</para><para>
A bad block table is used per chip and contains the
bad block information for this particular chip.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixed offset</para><para>
The bad block table is located at a fixed offset
in the chip (device). This applies to various
DiskOnChip devices.
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>Automatic placed</para><para>
The bad block table is automatically placed and
detected either at the end or at the beginning
of a chip (device)
</para> </listitem>
<listitem><para>Mirrored tables</para><para>
The bad block table is mirrored on the chip (device) to
allow updates of the bad block table without data loss.
</para> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
nand_scan() calls the function nand_default_bbt().
nand_default_bbt() selects appropriate default
bad block table desriptors depending on the chip information
which was retrieved by nand_scan().
</para>
<para>
The standard policy is scanning the device for bad
blocks and build a ram based bad block table which
allows faster access than always checking the
bad block information on the flash chip itself.
</para>
<sect2 id="Flash_based_tables">
<title>Flash based tables</title>
<para>
It may be desired or neccecary to keep a bad block table in FLASH.
For AG-AND chips this is mandatory, as they have no factory marked
bad blocks. They have factory marked good blocks. The marker pattern
is erased when the block is erased to be reused. So in case of
powerloss before writing the pattern back to the chip this block
would be lost and added to the bad blocks. Therefor we scan the
chip(s) when we detect them the first time for good blocks and
store this information in a bad block table before erasing any
of the blocks.
</para>
<para>
The blocks in which the tables are stored are procteted against
accidental access by marking them bad in the memory bad block
table. The bad block table managment functions are allowed
to circumvernt this protection.
</para>
<para>
The simplest way to activate the FLASH based bad block table support
is to set the option NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT in the option field of
the nand chip structure before calling nand_scan(). For AG-AND
chips is this done by default.
This activates the default FLASH based bad block table functionality
of the NAND driver. The default bad block table options are
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Store bad block table per chip</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use 2 bits per block</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Automatic placement at the end of the chip</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use mirrored tables with version numbers</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reserve 4 blocks at the end of the chip</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="User_defined_tables">
<title>User defined tables</title>
<para>
User defined tables are created by filling out a
nand_bbt_descr structure and storing the pointer in the
nand_chip structure member bbt_td before calling nand_scan().
If a mirror table is neccecary a second structure must be
created and a pointer to this structure must be stored
in bbt_md inside the nand_chip structure. If the bbt_md
member is set to NULL then only the main table is used
and no scan for the mirrored table is performed.
</para>
<para>
The most important field in the nand_bbt_descr structure
is the options field. The options define most of the
table properties. Use the predefined constants from
nand.h to define the options.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Number of bits per block</para>
<para>The supported number of bits is 1, 2, 4, 8.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table per chip</para>
<para>Setting the constant NAND_BBT_PERCHIP selects that
a bad block table is managed for each chip in a chip array.
If this option is not set then a per device bad block table
is used.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table location is absolute</para>
<para>Use the option constant NAND_BBT_ABSPAGE and
define the absolute page number where the bad block
table starts in the field pages. If you have selected bad block
tables per chip and you have a multi chip array then the start page
must be given for each chip in the chip array. Note: there is no scan
for a table ident pattern performed, so the fields
pattern, veroffs, offs, len can be left uninitialized</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table location is automatically detected</para>
<para>The table can either be located in the first or the last good
blocks of the chip (device). Set NAND_BBT_LASTBLOCK to place
the bad block table at the end of the chip (device). The
bad block tables are marked and identified by a pattern which
is stored in the spare area of the first page in the block which
holds the bad block table. Store a pointer to the pattern
in the pattern field. Further the length of the pattern has to be
stored in len and the offset in the spare area must be given
in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr stucture. For mirrored
bad block tables different patterns are mandatory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table creation</para>
<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_CREATE to enable the table creation
if no table can be found during the scan. Usually this is done only
once if a new chip is found. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table write support</para>
<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_WRITE to enable the table write support.
This allows the update of the bad block table(s) in case a block has
to be marked bad due to wear. The MTD interface function block_markbad
is calling the update function of the bad block table. If the write
support is enabled then the table is updated on FLASH.</para>
<para>
Note: Write support should only be enabled for mirrored tables with
version control.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Table version control</para>
<para>Set the option NAND_BBT_VERSION to enable the table version control.
It's highly recommended to enable this for mirrored tables with write
support. It makes sure that the risk of loosing the bad block
table information is reduced to the loss of the information about the
one worn out block which should be marked bad. The version is stored in
4 consecutive bytes in the spare area of the device. The position of
the version number is defined by the member veroffs in the bad block table
descriptor.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Save block contents on write</para>
<para>
In case that the block which holds the bad block table does contain
other useful information, set the option NAND_BBT_SAVECONTENT. When
the bad block table is written then the whole block is read the bad
block table is updated and the block is erased and everything is
written back. If this option is not set only the bad block table
is written and everything else in the block is ignored and erased.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Number of reserved blocks</para>
<para>
For automatic placement some blocks must be reserved for
bad block table storage. The number of reserved blocks is defined
in the maxblocks member of the babd block table description structure.
Reserving 4 blocks for mirrored tables should be a reasonable number.
This also limits the number of blocks which are scanned for the bad
block table ident pattern.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Spare_area_placement">
<title>Spare area (auto)placement</title>
<para>
The nand driver implements different possibilities for
placement of filesystem data in the spare area,
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Placement defined by fs driver</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Automatic placement</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
The default placement function is automatic placement. The
nand driver has built in default placement schemes for the
various chiptypes. If due to hardware ECC functionality the
default placement does not fit then the board driver can
provide a own placement scheme.
</para>
<para>
File system drivers can provide a own placement scheme which
is used instead of the default placement scheme.
</para>
<para>
Placement schemes are defined by a nand_oobinfo structure
<programlisting>
struct nand_oobinfo {
int useecc;
int eccbytes;
int eccpos[24];
int oobfree[8][2];
};
</programlisting>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>useecc</para><para>
The useecc member controls the ecc and placement function. The header
file include/mtd/mtd-abi.h contains constants to select ecc and
placement. MTD_NANDECC_OFF switches off the ecc complete. This is
not recommended and available for testing and diagnosis only.
MTD_NANDECC_PLACE selects caller defined placement, MTD_NANDECC_AUTOPLACE
selects automatic placement.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>eccbytes</para><para>
The eccbytes member defines the number of ecc bytes per page.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>eccpos</para><para>
The eccpos array holds the byte offsets in the spare area where
the ecc codes are placed.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>oobfree</para><para>
The oobfree array defines the areas in the spare area which can be
used for automatic placement. The information is given in the format
{offset, size}. offset defines the start of the usable area, size the
length in bytes. More than one area can be defined. The list is terminated
by an {0, 0} entry.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<sect2 id="Placement_defined_by_fs_driver">
<title>Placement defined by fs driver</title>
<para>
The calling function provides a pointer to a nand_oobinfo
structure which defines the ecc placement. For writes the
caller must provide a spare area buffer along with the
data buffer. The spare area buffer size is (number of pages) *
(size of spare area). For reads the buffer size is
(number of pages) * ((size of spare area) + (number of ecc
steps per page) * sizeof (int)). The driver stores the
result of the ecc check for each tuple in the spare buffer.
The storage sequence is
</para>
<para>
<spare data page 0><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n>
</para>
<para>
...
</para>
<para>
<spare data page n><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n>
</para>
<para>
This is a legacy mode used by YAFFS1.
</para>
<para>
If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is
done according to the given scheme in the nand_oobinfo structure.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="Automatic_placement">
<title>Automatic placement</title>
<para>
Automatic placement uses the built in defaults to place the
ecc bytes in the spare area. If filesystem data have to be stored /
read into the spare area then the calling function must provide a
buffer. The buffer size per page is determined by the oobfree array in
the nand_oobinfo structure.
</para>
<para>
If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is
done according to the default builtin scheme.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="User_space_placement_selection">
<title>User space placement selection</title>
<para>
All non ecc functions like mtd->read and mtd->write use an internal
structure, which can be set by an ioctl. This structure is preset
to the autoplacement default.
<programlisting>
ioctl (fd, MEMSETOOBSEL, oobsel);
</programlisting>
oobsel is a pointer to a user supplied structure of type
nand_oobconfig. The contents of this structure must match the
criteria of the filesystem, which will be used. See an example in utils/nandwrite.c.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="Spare_area_autoplacement_default">
<title>Spare area autoplacement default schemes</title>
<sect2 id="pagesize_256">
<title>256 byte pagesize</title>
<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
<row>
<entry>Offset</entry>
<entry>Content</entry>
<entry>Comment</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x00</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 0</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x01</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 1</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x02</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 2</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x03</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 0</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x04</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 1</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x05</entry>
<entry>Bad block marker</entry>
<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad.
This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining
pages this byte is reserved</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x06</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 2</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x07</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 3</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="pagesize_512">
<title>512 byte pagesize</title>
<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
<row>
<entry>Offset</entry>
<entry>Content</entry>
<entry>Comment</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x00</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 0</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the lower 256 Byte data in
this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x01</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 1</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the lower 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x02</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 2</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the lower 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x03</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 3</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the upper 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x04</entry>
<entry>reserved</entry>
<entry>reserved</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x05</entry>
<entry>Bad block marker</entry>
<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad.
This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining
pages this byte is reserved</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x06</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 4</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the upper 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x07</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 5</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the upper 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x08 - 0x0F</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 0 - 7</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="pagesize_2048">
<title>2048 byte pagesize</title>
<informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
<row>
<entry>Offset</entry>
<entry>Content</entry>
<entry>Comment</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x00</entry>
<entry>Bad block marker</entry>
<entry>If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block is bad.
This applies only to the first page in a block. In the remaining
pages this byte is reserved</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x01</entry>
<entry>Reserved</entry>
<entry>Reserved</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x02-0x27</entry>
<entry>Autoplace 0 - 37</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x28</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 0</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the first 256 Byte data in
this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x29</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 1</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the first 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2A</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 2</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the first 256 Bytes data in
this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2B</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 3</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the second 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2C</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 4</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the second 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2D</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 5</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the second 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2E</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 6</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the third 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x2F</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 7</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the third 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x30</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 8</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 2 of the third 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x31</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 9</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 0 of the fourth 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>0x32</entry>
<entry>ECC byte 10</entry>
<entry>Error correction code byte 1 of the fourth 256 Bytes of data
in this page</entry>
</row>
<row>