On 08/09/2011 04:41 AM, Hitz, Christian wrote: > Hi, > > we are looking to change the NAND flash part on our custom board > (AT91SAM9G20-EK based). The new part requires at least a 4-bit ECC > algorithm (e.g. BCH). As our processor has no hardware ECC > capabilities the ECC has to be calculated in software. > > The Linux kernel has support for BCH ECC since 2.6.39. Has U-Boot > support for this kind of ECC algorithm? E.g. Could we use U-Boot to > write a kernel and rootfs with matching ECC into the flash?
It has not been aded to U-Boot yet, but U-Boot's NAND code is derived from Linux's, so it shouldn't be too hard to bring the Linux BCH code over. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
