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This moves the CMDLINE partition parser down into the
parser subdirectory. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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This moves the OF/device tree partition parser down into the
parser subdirectory. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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This moves the BCM63xx partition parser down into the
parser subdirectory. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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This moves the BCM47xx partition parser down into the
parser subdirectory. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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This moves the TI AR7 partition parser down into the
parser subdirectory. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Cypress' HyperBus is Low Signal Count, High Performance Double Data Rate
Bus interface between a host system master and one or more slave
interfaces. HyperBus is used to connect microprocessor, microcontroller,
or ASIC devices with random access NOR flash memory (called HyperFlash)
or self refresh DRAM (called HyperRAM).
Its a 8-bit data bus (DQ[7:0]) with Read-Write Data Strobe (RWDS)
signal and either Single-ended clock(3.0V parts) or Differential clock
(1.8V parts). It uses ChipSelect lines to select b/w multiple slaves.
At bus level, it follows a separate protocol described in HyperBus
specification[1].
HyperFlash follows CFI AMD/Fujitsu Extended Command Set (0x0002) similar
to that of existing parallel NORs. Since HyperBus is x8 DDR bus,
its equivalent to x16 parallel NOR flash with respect to bits per clock
cycle. But HyperBus operates at >166MHz frequencies.
HyperRAM provides direct random read/write access to flash memory
array.
But, HyperBus memory controllers seem to abstract implementation details
and expose a simple MMIO interface to access connected flash.
Add support for registering HyperFlash devices with MTD framework. MTD
maps framework along with CFI chip support framework are used to support
communicating with flash.
Framework is modelled along the lines of spi-nor framework. HyperBus
memory controller (HBMC) drivers calls hyperbus_register_device() to
register a single HyperFlash device. HyperFlash core parses MMIO access
information from DT, sets up the map_info struct, probes CFI flash and
registers it with MTD framework.
Some HBMC masters need calibration/training sequence[3] to be carried
out, in order for DLL inside the controller to lock, by reading a known
string/pattern. This is done by repeatedly reading CFI Query
Identification String. Calibration needs to be done before trying to detect
flash as part of CFI flash probe.
HyperRAM is not supported at the moment.
HyperBus specification can be found at[1]
HyperFlash datasheet can be found at[2]
[1] https://www.cypress.com/file/213356/download
[2] https://www.cypress.com/file/213346/download
[3] http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruid7b/spruid7b.pdf
Table 12-5741. HyperFlash Access Sequence
Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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This moves the AFS (ARM Firmware Suite) partition parser
for NOR flash down into the parsers subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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This moves the Redboot partition parser down to the parsers
subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Move onenand code base to the drivers/mtd/nand directory in the hope
that someday someone will patch it to use the generic NAND helpers.
If it never happens, at least we'll have all NAND related support in a
single directory and not spread over the drivers/mtd/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
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GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This makes TRX parsing code reusable with other platforms and parsers.
Please note this patch doesn't really change anything in the existing
code, just moves it. There is still some place for improvement (e.g.
working on non-hacky method of checking rootfs format) but it's not
really a subject of this change.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Acked-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
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This patch cloned most of the m25p80.c. In theory, it adds a new spi-nor layer.
Before this patch, the layer is like:
MTD
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m25p80
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spi bus driver
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SPI NOR chip
After this patch, the layer is like:
MTD
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spi-nor
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m25p80
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spi bus driver
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SPI NOR chip
With the spi-nor controller driver(Freescale Quadspi), it looks like:
MTD
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spi-nor
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fsl-quadspi
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SPI NOR chip
New APIs:
spi_nor_scan: used to scan a spi-nor flash.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
[Brian: rebased to include additional m25p_ids[] entry]
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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The MTD subsystem has historically tried to be as configurable as possible. The
side-effect of this is that its configuration menu is rather large, and we are
gradually shrinking it. For example, we recently merged partitions support with
the mtdcore.
This patch does the next step - it merges the mtdchar module to mtdcore. And in
this case this is not only about eliminating too fine-grained separation and
simplifying the configuration menu. This is also about eliminating seemingly
useless kernel module.
Indeed, mtdchar is a module that allows user-space making use of MTD devices
via /dev/mtd* character devices. If users do not enable it, they simply cannot
use MTD devices at all. They cannot read or write the flash contents. Is it a
sane and useful setup? I believe not. And everyone just enables mtdchar.
Having mtdchar separate is also a little bit harmful. People sometimes miss the
fact that they need to enable an additional configuration option to have
user-space MTD interfaces, and then they wonder why on earth the kernel does
not allow using the flash? They spend time asking around.
Thus, let's just get rid of this module and make it part of mtd core.
Note, mtdchar had additional configuration option to enable OTP interfaces,
which are present on some flashes. I removed that option as well - it saves a
really tiny amount space.
[dwmw2: Strictly speaking, you can mount file systems on MTD devices just
fine without the mtdchar (or mtdblock) devices; you just can't do
other manipulations directly on the underlying device. But still I
agree that it makes sense to make this unconditional. And Yay! we
get to kill off an instance of checking CONFIG_foo_MODULE, which is
an abomination that should never happen.]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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This driver provides parser detecting partitions on BCM47XX flash
memories. It has many differences in comparison to BCM63XX, like:
1) Different CFE with no more trivial MAGICs
2) More partitions types (board_data, ML, POT)
3) Supporting more than 1 flash on a device
which resulted in decision of writing new parser.
It uses generic mtd interface and was successfully tested with Netgear
WNDR4500 router which has 2 flash memories: serial one and NAND one.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Recent BCM63XX devices support a variety of flash types (parallel, SPI,
NAND) and share the partition layout. To prevent code duplication make
the CFE partition parsing code a stand alone mtd parser to allow SPI or
NAND flash drivers to use it.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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As ofpart now uses a standard mtd partitions parser interface, make it
buildable as a separate module. Also provide MODULE_DESCRIPTION and
MODULE_AUTHOR for this module.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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Now that none of the drivers use CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS we can remove
it from Kconfig and the last remaining uses.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Add a driver for allowing an mtd device to be used as a block device for
swapping. The block device is volatile, and the mapping of swapped pages
is not stored on flash.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Move mtdconcat to be an integral part of the mtd core. It's a tiny bit
of code, which bears 'say Y if you don't know what to do' note in the
Kconfig. OTOH there are several ugly ifdefs depending on the MTD_CONCAT.
So, making MTD_CONCAT support mandatory will allow us to clean up code a
lot.
Kconfig entry is changed to be a bool defaulting to Y, so all code
pieces depending on it, will have MTD_CONCAT Kconfig symbol and
CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT define. This will be removed in one of next patches.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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MTD_OF_PARTS should be possible on all architectures, not just
powerpc and microblaze, and it probably should not be a user
selectable option. Neither does it need to be in a separate module.
Also, rework MTD Kconfig to group options dependant on MTD_PARTITIONS
into a if/endif block. Do the same for MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
Pull in the bdi fixes and ARM platform changes that other outstanding
patches depend on.
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Removes one .h and one .c file that are never used outside of
mtdcore.c.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Edited to remove on leftover debug define.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This implements new readwrite SmartMedia/xd FTL.
mtd driver must have support proper ECC and badblock verification
based on oob parts for 512 bytes nand.
Also mtd driver must define read_oob and write_oob, which are used
to read and write both data and oob together.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Present backing device capabilities for MTD character device files to allow
NOMMU mmap to do direct mapping where possible.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/Makefile
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Add MTD tests to Kconfig and Makefiles.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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We have two components to manage LPDDR flash memories in Linux.
1. It is a driver for chip probing and reading its capabilities
2. It is a device operations driver.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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We want drivers/mtd/{mtdcore, mtdsuper, mtdpart}.c to be built and linked
into the same mtd.ko module. Fix the Makefile to ensure this, and remove
duplicate MODULE_ declarations in mtdpart.c, as mtdcore.c already has them.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes.
These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a
syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash.
This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log
buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages
are obtained by registering a console driver and checking
oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the
chances of a saving messages.
To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x
is the mtd device number to use).
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks so that JFFS2 and ROMFS
can both share it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single
flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides
a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling
across the whole flash device.
In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector
numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks.
More information may be found at
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
Partitioning/Re-partitioning
An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is
limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be
viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can
be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the
sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit.
UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are
read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums.
Bad eraseblocks handling
UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical
eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical
eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this.
Scrubbing
On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation,
sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first
they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate,
correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub
the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock
and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of
scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users.
Erase Counts
UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees
higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows
for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are
used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm
itself is exchangeable.
Booting from NAND
For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be
capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND
flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They
usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This
"initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to
load and execute the next boot phase.
Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the
flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program
loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become
corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by
storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume.
UBI volumes vs. static partitions
UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions:
* both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI
volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions;
* both support three basic operations - read, write, erase.
But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional
static MTD partitions:
* there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI
volumes, so the user should not care about this;
* there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes.
So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed
restrictions.
Where can it be found?
Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD
gits.
What are the applications for?
The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi
files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain
binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing
step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content
analysis after a system has crashed..
Who did UBI?
The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas
Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others
were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem
B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver
Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem.
Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on
a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander
Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements.
Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
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Add a MTD_BLKDEVS Kconfig option to cleanup the makefile a bit
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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OneNAND is a new flash technology from Samsung with integrated SRAM
buffers and logic interface.
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This type of flash translation layer (FTL) is used by the Embedded BIOS
by General Software. It is known as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), see:
http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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