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+Overview
+========
+
+The overall usage pattern for ECC diagnostic commands is the following:
+
+ * (injecting errors is initially disabled)
+
+ * define inject mask (which tells the DDR controller what type of errors
+ we'll be injecting: single/multiple bit etc.)
+
+ * enable injecting errors - from now on the controller injects errors as
+ indicated in the inject mask
+
+IMPORTANT NOTICE: enabling injecting multiple-bit errors is potentially
+dangerous as such errors are NOT corrected by the controller. Therefore caution
+should be taken when enabling the injection of multiple-bit errors: it is only
+safe when used on a carefully selected memory area and used under control of
+the 'ecc test' command (see example 'Injecting Multiple-Bit Errors' below). In
+particular, when you simply set the multiple-bit errors in inject mask and
+enable injection, U-Boot is very likely to hang quickly as the errors will be
+injected when it accesses its code, data etc.
+
+
+Use cases for DDR 'ecc' command:
+================================
+
+Before executing particular tests reset target board or clear status registers:
+
+=> ecc captureclear
+=> ecc errdetectclr all
+=> ecc sbecnt 0
+
+
+Injecting Single-Bit Errors
+---------------------------
+
+1. Set 1 bit in Data Path Error Inject Mask
+
+=> ecc injectdatahi 1
+
+2. Run test over some memory region
+
+=> ecc test 200000 10
+
+3. Check ECC status
+
+=> ecc status
+...
+Memory Data Path Error Injection Mask High/Low: 00000001 00000000
+...
+Memory Single-Bit Error Management (0..255):
+ Single-Bit Error Threshold: 255
+ Single Bit Error Counter: 16
+...
+Memory Error Detect:
+ Multiple Memory Errors: 0
+ Multiple-Bit Error: 0
+ Single-Bit Error: 0
+...
+
+16 errors were generated, Single-Bit Error flag was not set as Single Bit Error
+Counter did not reach Single-Bit Error Threshold.
+
+4. Make sure used memory region got re-initialized with 0xcafecafe pattern
+
+=> md 200000
+00200000: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200010: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200020: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200030: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200040: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200050: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200060: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200070: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200080: deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef ................
+00200090: deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef ................
+
+
+Injecting Multiple-Bit Errors
+-----------------------------
+
+1. Set more than 1 bit in Data Path Error Inject Mask
+
+=> ecc injectdatahi 5
+
+2. Run test over some memory region
+
+=> ecc test 200000 10
+
+3. Check ECC status
+
+=> ecc status
+...
+Memory Data Path Error Injection Mask High/Low: 00000005 00000000
+...
+Memory Error Detect:
+ Multiple Memory Errors: 1
+ Multiple-Bit Error: 1
+ Single-Bit Error: 0
+...
+
+Observe that both Multiple Memory Errors and Multiple-Bit Error flags are set.
+
+4. Make sure used memory region got re-initialized with 0xcafecafe pattern
+
+=> md 200000
+00200000: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200010: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200020: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200030: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200040: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200050: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200060: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200070: cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe cafecafe ................
+00200080: deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef ................
+00200090: deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef deadbeef ................
+
+
+Test Single-Bit Error Counter and Threshold
+-------------------------------------------
+
+1. Set 1 bit in Data Path Error Inject Mask
+
+=> ecc injectdatahi 1
+
+2. Enable error injection
+
+=> ecc inject en
+
+3. Let u-boot run for a with Single-Bit error injection enabled
+
+4. Disable error injection
+
+=> ecc inject dis
+
+4. Check status
+
+=> ecc status
+
+...
+Memory Single-Bit Error Management (0..255):
+ Single-Bit Error Threshold: 255
+ Single Bit Error Counter: 60
+
+Memory Error Detect:
+ Multiple Memory Errors: 1
+ Multiple-Bit Error: 0
+ Single-Bit Error: 1
+...
+
+Observe that Single-Bit Error is 'on' which means that Single-Bit Error Counter
+reached Single-Bit Error Threshold. Multiple Memory Errors bit is also 'on', that
+is Counter reached Threshold more than one time (it wraps back after reaching
+Threshold).
+
+
diff --git a/doc/README.nand b/doc/README.nand
index 0f2bdc5..f2d6a5b 100644
--- a/doc/README.nand
+++ b/doc/README.nand
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
NAND FLASH commands and notes
+
+See NOTE below!!!
+
+
# (C) Copyright 2003
# Dave Ellis, SIXNET, dge@sixnetio.com
#
@@ -173,3 +177,33 @@ More Definitions:
#define NAND_ChipID_UNKNOWN 0x00
#define NAND_MAX_FLOORS 1
#define NAND_MAX_CHIPS 1
+
+
+NOTE:
+=====
+
+We now use a complete rewrite of the NAND code based on what is in
+2.6.12 Linux kernel.
+
+The old NAND handling code has been re-factored and is now confined
+to only board-specific files and - unfortunately - to the DoC code
+(see below). A new configuration variable has been introduced:
+CFG_NAND_LEGACY, which has to be defined in the board config file if
+that board uses legacy code. If CFG_NAND_LEGACY is defined, the board
+specific config.mk file should also have "BOARDLIBS =
+drivers/nand_legacy/libnand_legacy.a". For boards using the new NAND
+approach (PPChameleon and netstar at the moment) no variable is
+necessary, but the config.mk should have "BOARDLIBS =
+drivers/nand/libnand.a".
+
+The necessary changes have been made to all affected boards, and no
+build breakage has been introduced, except for NETTA and NETTA_ISDN
+targets from MAKEALL. This is due to the fact that these two boards
+use JFFS, which has been adopted to use the new NAND, and at the same
+time use NAND in legacy mode. The breakage will disappear when the
+board-specific code is changed to the new NAND.
+
+As mentioned above, the legacy code is still used by the DoC subsystem.
+The consequence of this is that the legacy NAND can't be removed from
+the tree until the DoC is ported to use the new NAND support (or boards
+with DoC will break).