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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:55:54 -0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Set FORCE_CSX bit to ARMADA370 variants
To: Miquel RAYNAL <miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
        Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
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On 22 December 2017 at 12:53, Miquel RAYNAL
<miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:19:04 +1300
> Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> From: Kalyan Kinthada <kalyan.kinthada@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
>>
>> The Armada-370 based SoCs support arbitration between the NAND Flash
>> interface and NOR (i.e. devbus) on the same chip select. However there
>> are two guidelines that must be followed to avoid data corruption in
>> this scenario.
>
> Sorry to bother you again with that but, do you actually face any
> issue/data corruption with this scenario?
>

Indeed. We need a description of a real world problem this patch is fixing.
-- 
Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar