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  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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  NAND FLASH commands and notes
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  See NOTE below!!!
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  # (C) Copyright 2003
  # Dave Ellis, SIXNET, dge@sixnetio.com
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  Commands:
  
     nand bad
        Print a list of all of the bad blocks in the current device.
  
     nand device
        Print information about the current NAND device.
  
     nand device num
        Make device `num' the current device and print information about it.
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     nand erase off|partition size
     nand erase clean [off|partition size]
        Erase `size' bytes starting at offset `off'. Alternatively partition
        name can be specified, in this case size will be eventually limited
        to not exceed partition size (this behaviour applies also to read
        and write commands). Only complete erase blocks can be erased.
  
        If `erase' is specified without an offset or size, the entire flash
        is erased. If `erase' is specified with partition but without an
        size, the entire partition is erased.
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        If `clean' is specified, a JFFS2-style clean marker is written to
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        each block after it is erased.
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        This command will not erase blocks that are marked bad. There is
        a debug option in cmd_nand.c to allow bad blocks to be erased.
        Please read the warning there before using it, as blocks marked
        bad by the manufacturer must _NEVER_ be erased.
  
     nand info
        Print information about all of the NAND devices found.
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     nand read addr ofs|partition size
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        Read `size' bytes from `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'.  Blocks that
        are marked bad are skipped.  If a page cannot be read because an
        uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error.
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     nand read.oob addr ofs|partition size
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        Read `size' bytes from the out-of-band data area corresponding to
        `ofs' in NAND flash to `addr'. This is limited to the 16 bytes of
        data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
        for bad blocks or ECC errors.
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     nand write addr ofs|partition size
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        Write `size' bytes from `addr' to `ofs' in NAND flash.  Blocks that
        are marked bad are skipped.  If a page cannot be read because an
        uncorrectable data error is found, the command stops with an error.
  
        As JFFS2 skips blocks similarly, this allows writing a JFFS2 image,
        as long as the image is short enough to fit even after skipping the
        bad blocks.  Compact images, such as those produced by mkfs.jffs2
        should work well, but loading an image copied from another flash is
        going to be trouble if there are any bad blocks.
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     nand write.trimffs addr ofs|partition size
        Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS macro. This command will write to
        the NAND flash in a manner identical to the 'nand write' command
        described above -- with the additional check that all pages at the end
        of eraseblocks which contain only 0xff data will not be written to the
        NAND flash. This behaviour is required when flashing UBI images
        containing UBIFS volumes as per the UBI FAQ[1].
  
        [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo
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     nand write.oob addr ofs|partition size
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        Write `size' bytes from `addr' to the out-of-band data area
        corresponding to `ofs' in NAND flash. This is limited to the 16 bytes
        of data for one 512-byte page or 2 256-byte pages. There is no check
        for bad blocks.
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     nand read.raw addr ofs|partition [count]
     nand write.raw addr ofs|partition [count]
        Read or write one or more pages at "ofs" in NAND flash, from or to
        "addr" in memory.  This is a raw access, so ECC is avoided and the
        OOB area is transferred as well.  If count is absent, it is assumed
        to be one page.  As with .yaffs2 accesses, the data is formatted as
        a packed sequence of "data, oob, data, oob, ..." -- no alignment of
        individual pages is maintained.
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  Configuration Options:
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     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
  	NAND Offset from where SPL will read u-boot image. This is the starting
  	address of u-boot MTD partition in NAND.
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     CONFIG_CMD_NAND
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        Enables NAND support and commands.
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     CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE
        Enables the torture command (see description of this command below).
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     CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE
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        The maximum number of NAND devices you want to support.
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     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_ECCPOS
        If specified, overrides the maximum number of ECC bytes
        supported.  Useful for reducing image size, especially with SPL.
        This must be at least 48 if nand_base.c is used.
  
     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_OOBFREE
        If specified, overrides the maximum number of free OOB regions
        supported.  Useful for reducing image size, especially with SPL.
        This must be at least 2 if nand_base.c is used.
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     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_CHIPS
        The maximum number of NAND chips per device to be supported.
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     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT
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        Traditionally, glue code in drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand.c has driven
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        the initialization process -- it provides the mtd and nand
        structs, calls a board init function for a specific device,
        calls nand_scan(), and registers with mtd.
  
        This arrangement does not provide drivers with the flexibility to
        run code between nand_scan_ident() and nand_scan_tail(), or other
        deviations from the "normal" flow.
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        If a board defines CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT, drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand.c
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        will make one call to board_nand_init(), with no arguments.  That
        function is responsible for calling a driver init function for
        each NAND device on the board, that performs all initialization
        tasks except setting mtd->name, and registering with the rest of
        U-Boot.  Those last tasks are accomplished by calling  nand_register()
        on the new mtd device.
  
        Example of new init to be added to the end of an existing driver
        init:
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  	/* chip is struct nand_chip, and is now provided by the driver. */
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  	mtd = nand_to_mtd(&chip);
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  	/*
  	 * Fill in appropriate values if this driver uses these fields,
  	 * or uses the standard read_byte/write_buf/etc. functions from
  	 * nand_base.c that use these fields.
  	 */
  	chip.IO_ADDR_R = ...;
  	chip.IO_ADDR_W = ...;
  
  	if (nand_scan_ident(mtd, CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_CHIPS, NULL))
  		error out
  
  	/*
  	 * Insert here any code you wish to run after the chip has been
  	 * identified, but before any other I/O is done.
  	 */
  
  	if (nand_scan_tail(mtd))
  		error out
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  	/*
  	 * devnum is the device number to be used in nand commands
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  	 * and in mtd->name.  Must be less than CONFIG_SYS_MAX_NAND_DEVICE.
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  	 */
  	if (nand_register(devnum, mtd))
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  		error out
  
        In addition to providing more flexibility to the driver, it reduces
        the difference between a U-Boot driver and its Linux counterpart.
        nand_init() is now reduced to calling board_nand_init() once, and
        printing a size summary.  This should also make it easier to
        transition to delayed NAND initialization.
  
        Please convert your driver even if you don't need the extra
        flexibility, so that one day we can eliminate the old mechanism.
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     CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ONFI_DETECTION
  	Enables detection of ONFI compliant devices during probe.
  	And fetching device parameters flashed on device, by parsing
  	ONFI parameter page.
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  Platform specific options
  =========================
     CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC
  	Enables omap_gpmc.c driver for OMAPx and AMxxxx platforms.
  	GPMC controller is used for parallel NAND flash devices, and can
  	do ECC calculation (not ECC error detection) for HAM1, BCH4, BCH8
  	and BCH16 ECC algorithms.
  
     CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_ELM
  	Enables omap_elm.c driver for OMAPx and AMxxxx platforms.
  	ELM controller is used for ECC error detection (not ECC calculation)
  	of BCH4, BCH8 and BCH16 ECC algorithms.
  	Some legacy platforms like OMAP3xx do not have in-built ELM h/w engine,
  	thus such SoC platforms need to depend on software library for ECC error
  	detection. However ECC calculation on such plaforms would still be
  	done by GPMC controller.
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     CONFIG_SPL_NAND_AM33XX_BCH
  	Enables SPL-NAND driver (am335x_spl_bch.c) which supports ELM based
          hardware ECC correction. This is useful for platforms which have ELM
  	hardware engine and use NAND boot mode.
  	Some legacy platforms like OMAP3xx do not have in-built ELM h/w engine,
  	so those platforms should use CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE for enabling
          SPL-NAND driver with software ECC correction support.
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     CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_ECCSCHEME
  	On OMAP platforms, this CONFIG specifies NAND ECC scheme.
  	It can take following values:
  	OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_SW
  		1-bit Hamming code using software lib.
  		(for legacy devices only)
  	OMAP_ECC_HAM1_CODE_HW
  		1-bit Hamming code using GPMC hardware.
  		(for legacy devices only)
  	OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW
  		4-bit BCH code (unsupported)
  	OMAP_ECC_BCH4_CODE_HW
  		4-bit BCH code (unsupported)
  	OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW_DETECTION_SW
  		8-bit BCH code with
  		- ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine,
  		- error detection using software library.
  		- requires CONFIG_BCH to enable software BCH library
  		(For legacy device which do not have ELM h/w engine)
  	OMAP_ECC_BCH8_CODE_HW
  		8-bit BCH code with
  		- ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine,
  		- error detection using ELM hardware engine.
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  	OMAP_ECC_BCH16_CODE_HW
  		16-bit BCH code with
  		- ecc calculation using GPMC hardware engine,
  		- error detection using ELM hardware engine.
  
  	How to select ECC scheme on OMAP and AMxx platforms ?
  	-----------------------------------------------------
  	Though higher ECC schemes have more capability to detect and correct
  	bit-flips, but still selection of ECC scheme is dependent on following
  	- hardware engines present in SoC.
  		Some legacy OMAP SoC do not have ELM h/w engine thus such
  		SoC cannot support BCHx_HW ECC schemes.
  	- size of OOB/Spare region
  		With higher ECC schemes, more OOB/Spare area is required to
  		store ECC. So choice of ECC scheme is limited by NAND oobsize.
  
  	In general following expression can help:
  		NAND_OOBSIZE >= 2 + (NAND_PAGESIZE / 512) * ECC_BYTES
  	where
  		NAND_OOBSIZE	= number of bytes available in
  				OOB/spare area per NAND page.
  		NAND_PAGESIZE	= bytes in main-area of NAND page.
  		ECC_BYTES	= number of ECC bytes generated to
  				protect 512 bytes of data, which is:
  				3 for HAM1_xx ecc schemes
  				7 for BCH4_xx ecc schemes
  				14 for BCH8_xx ecc schemes
  				26 for BCH16_xx ecc schemes
  
  		example to check for BCH16 on 2K page NAND
  		NAND_PAGESIZE = 2048
  		NAND_OOBSIZE = 64
  		2 + (2048 / 512) * 26 = 106 > NAND_OOBSIZE
  		Thus BCH16 cannot be supported on 2K page NAND.
  
  		However, for 4K pagesize NAND
  		NAND_PAGESIZE = 4096
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  		ECC_BYTES = 26
  		2 + (4096 / 512) * 26 = 210 < NAND_OOBSIZE
  		Thus BCH16 can be supported on 4K page NAND.
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      CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC_PREFETCH
  	On OMAP platforms that use the GPMC controller
  	(CONFIG_NAND_OMAP_GPMC_PREFETCH), this options enables the code that
  	uses the prefetch mode to speed up read operations.
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  NOTE:
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  The Disk On Chip driver is currently broken and has been for some time.
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  There is a driver in drivers/mtd/nand/raw, taken from Linux, that works with
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  the current NAND system but has not yet been adapted to the u-boot
  environment.
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  Additional improvements to the NAND subsystem by Guido Classen, 10-10-2006
  
  JFFS2 related commands:
  
    implement "nand erase clean" and old "nand erase"
    using both the new code which is able to skip bad blocks
    "nand erase clean" additionally writes JFFS2-cleanmarkers in the oob.
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  Miscellaneous and testing commands:
    "markbad [offset]"
    create an artificial bad block (for testing bad block handling)
  
    "scrub [offset length]"
    like "erase" but don't skip bad block. Instead erase them.
    DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only
    to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command.
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    "torture offset [size]"
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    Torture block to determine if it is still reliable.
    Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE configuration option.
    This command returns 0 if the block is still reliable, else 1.
    If the block is detected as unreliable, it is up to the user to decide to
    mark this block as bad.
    The analyzed block is put through 3 erase / write cycles (or less if the block
    is detected as unreliable earlier).
    This command can be used in scripts, e.g. together with the markbad command to
    automate retries and handling of possibly newly detected bad blocks if the
    nand write command fails.
    It can also be used manually by users having seen some NAND errors in logs to
    search the root cause of these errors.
    The underlying nand_torture() function is also useful for code willing to
    automate actions following a nand->write() error. This would e.g. be required
    in order to program or update safely firmware to NAND, especially for the UBI
    part of such firmware.
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    Optionally, a second parameter size can be given to test multiple blocks with
    one call. If size is not a multiple of the NAND's erase size, then the block
    that contains offset + size will be tested in full. If used with size, this
    command returns 0 if all tested blocks have been found reliable, else 1.
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  NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin)
  
    "nand lock"
    set NAND chip to lock state (all pages locked)
  
    "nand lock tight"
    set NAND chip to lock tight state (software can't change locking anymore)
  
    "nand lock status"
    displays current locking status of all pages
  
    "nand unlock [offset] [size]"
    unlock consecutive area (can be called multiple times for different areas)
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    "nand unlock.allexcept [offset] [size]"
    unlock all except specified consecutive area
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  I have tested the code with board containing 128MiB NAND large page chips
  and 32MiB small page chips.