u-boot/doc/README.atmel_pmecc

How to enable PMECC(Programmable Multibit ECC) for nand on Atmel SoCs
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2012-08-22 Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>

The Programmable Multibit ECC (PMECC) controller is a programmable binary
BCH(Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem) encoder and decoder. This controller
can be used to support both SLC and MLC NAND Flash devices. It supports to
generate ECC to correct 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 bits of error per sector (512 or
1024 bytes) of data.

Following Atmel AT91 products support PMECC.
- AT91SAM9X25, X35, G25, G15, G35 (tested)
- AT91SAM9N12 (not tested, Should work)

As soon as your nand flash software ECC works, you can enable PMECC.

To use PMECC in this driver, the user needs to set:
	1. the PMECC correction error bits capability: CONFIG_PMECC_CAP.
	   It can be 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24.
	2. The PMECC sector size: CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE.
	   It only can be 512 or 1024.

Take AT91SAM9X5EK as an example, the board definition file likes:

/* PMECC & PMERRLOC */
#define CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HWECC		1
#define CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HW_PMECC	1
#define CONFIG_PMECC_CAP		2
#define CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE	512