Hello, I work with several MPC83xx boards in our company, and a while ago we were informed that the NAND chip we used was being discontinued. The only options for a replacement were the newer 4k page ones. Specifically, we are using now the Micron 29F8G08ABABA (8 gigabit).
I was sweeping the repositories and this list's archives and I'm with the impression that these chips are not supported yet. I saw some patches sent hacking the driver to allow for the use of 4k pages.
Additionally, I'm worried about the use of the 4 bit ECC lib (BCH), as it seems to me that the fsl_elbc_nand driver is not prepared to use a software ECC config. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that the driver always uses the 1 bit HW ECC that's present in freescale's controller.
Because of this, I would like to ask for an overall status of these things. What can I expect to be working? What are the main areas of concern? If there is no complete implementation yet (as I saw some patches being rejected / not merged yet), what is currently missing? What is the area where most work is needed?
I ask all of this because we need these implementations and I'm looking for the correct starting point for any implementation that I would need to do.
Thanks in advance for any help, Rafael