It looks like there is a driver but it was never merged into Linux.
You can try patching it in.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7467351/
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That's great news, I just now need to read up on how to use a patch.
The patch failed as the nand.h and nand_base.c files have change since the patch was conceived. I manually edited the patch to work around the changes in the two files, but now wont compile as I believe the struct nand_ecclayout has been deprecated.
Is there any information to migrate the old code to use the newer mtd_ooblayout_ops struct?
Yeah, ecclayout was deprecated in 4.9 I believe.
MT7620 had the same issue.
I have now got it building, by switching back to Linux 4.4 in the Makefile. i.e. KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.4
But it does not seem to be using the driver. I'm trying to put some debug in to see whats happening, but I'm very new to both Linux and compiling LEDE/OpenWRT or any Linux distro for that matter.
I will post back if i make anymore progress.
Well,you gotta also select it
I just assumed looking at the code when the extended chip ID was decoded in nand_base.c, the chip->ecc.mode was set to NAND_ECC_BENAND and then in nand_scan_tail function the ecc was setup?
How would I select it?
You gotta use make menuconfig and then select the driver to be built and included
Could you point me in the general area in menuconfig? because i have have looked several times, even in kernel_menuconfig but nothing looks right.
When I kick a build off with the patch, it does ask me if I wish to enable the Toshiba BENAND, to which I choose yes, I would have thought this to be sufficient?
It should be under kernel modules, MTD
It asks you that since kernel config does not have that option disabled or enabled
There does not seem to be an MTD option.
I have now found a set of patches that might work for v4.14 of the kernel, as in version 4.12 a file for nand_toshiba.c was introduced, which these files patch.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9963289/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10096117/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10219363/
so I may try going down that route now?
Thanks for your help so far, its been very useful.
It is under one of those submenus.
You gotta dig around.
I think using kernel 4.14 maybe a non-starter as the ar71xx platform is not supported for anything above 4.9
see:
and
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-February/011312.html
So back to trying kernel 4.4 and the Toshiba BENAND with hardware ECC
Sorry for the delay in answering. At the moment I have not found a solution to get it working with the Toshiba BENAND flash chips. I have resorted to soldering on another chip that works, but in the long term I need to fix this issue.
Are you affected by this same issue? and have you made any progress?
Most likely current NAND driver is interfering with Toshiba one.
Also,pins used could have changed easily
Hi Robert,
I have checked the datasheets and believe the pin outs to be identical. As for the current NAND interfering, I have not looked too deep at that, and only tried the patches that Yoshitake Kobayashi had submitted. I'm currently working on something completely different at the moment, but i am due to pick this up soon with some help.
I will report back if we have success.
It most likely will interfere as from what I remember guys wrote custom NAND driver for the previus NAND that was used.
So it will interfere
Hi Matt. Yes, I'm affected by this issue, but as I'm not a developer I can't help writing the driver. I can help testing the driver if you want to.
Hi Thiago,
If we make any progress I will keep you informed and upload an image for you to try. As I'm very new to this kind of development and the fact I'm currently not working on this, it may be a while before there is any update.