Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] omap_gpmc: use SOFTECC in SPL if it's enabled

Hi Simon,

On 20.10.2011 16:00, Simon Schwarz wrote:

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Use software ECC for the SPL build if support for software ECC in SPL is enabled.

I'am curious: Is there a special reason for having software ecc in SPL?

Well, yes. On OMAP2+ ECC mode defaults to software (incompatible with HW mode; 256 vs 512 bytes block size) both in U-Boot and Linux (U-Boot has command to change it while in Linux you have to recompile the kernel).

So we need software ecc to read images written from Linux.

Regards, Ilya.