Thank you, Scott :)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:42:19 -0500 From: scottwood@freescale.com To: leon.he@msn.com CC: u-boot@lists.denx.de Subject: Re: [U-Boot] about nand_read_byte() interface
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:20:58PM +0800, HeLei wrote:
Hi, all
Hi, please wrap your lines at 75 or so characters -- and definitely don't paste code as all one line.
Sorry, I change to another email client, I hope it will be okay this time.
I'm a little confused on NAND read operation. According to NAND character, NAND flash is read page by page, which mean's once you read, at least you should read data with page size (such as 512Bytes)
Yes, unless you're reading from the out-of-band area.
So, this means we have to call nand_read() to get the whole page, even if we just need a single byte in the page. And the call chain is as following:
mtd->nand => nand_read => nand_do_read_ops =>nand_read_page_raw => ...
Do I get it ?
But the nand_read_byte() is implemented as following: static u_char nand_read_byte(struct mtd_info *mtd) { struct nand_chip *this = mtd->priv; return readb(this->IO_ADDR_R); } it seems only one byte is read out.
It's reading one byte out of a buffer that was previously filled with some operation. It is used for reading status bytes and OOB bad block markers.
Yes, interface nand_read_byte() is often used to read out status byte or OOB byte, after I review the code.
-Scott
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