static int checkecc = 1;
 module_param(checkecc, int, 0644);
 
-static int slowtiming = 0;
-module_param(slowtiming, int, 0644);
+static int numtimings;
+static int timing[3];
+module_param_array(timing, int, &numtimings, 0644);
 
 /* Hrm. Why isn't this already conditional on something in the struct device? */
 #define cafe_dev_dbg(dev, args...) do { if (debug) dev_dbg(dev, ##args); } while(0)
 {
        struct mtd_info *mtd;
        struct cafe_priv *cafe;
+       uint32_t timing1, timing2, timing3;
        uint32_t ctrl;
        int err = 0;
 
                cafe->nand.block_bad = cafe_nand_block_bad;
        }
 
+       if (numtimings && numtimings != 3) {
+               dev_warn(&cafe->pdev->dev, "%d timing register values ignored; precisely three are required\n", numtimings);
+       }
+
+       if (numtimings == 3) {
+               timing1 = timing[0];
+               timing2 = timing[1];
+               timing3 = timing[2];
+               cafe_dev_dbg(&cafe->pdev->dev, "Using provided timings (%08x %08x %08x)\n",
+                            timing1, timing2, timing3);
+       } else {
+               timing1 = cafe_readl(cafe, NAND_TIMING1);
+               timing2 = cafe_readl(cafe, NAND_TIMING2);
+               timing3 = cafe_readl(cafe, NAND_TIMING3);
+
+               if (timing1 | timing2 | timing3) {
+                       cafe_dev_dbg(&cafe->pdev->dev, "Timing registers already set (%08x %08x %08x)\n", timing1, timing2, timing3);
+               } else {
+                       dev_warn(&cafe->pdev->dev, "Timing registers unset; using most conservative defaults\n");
+                       timing1 = timing2 = timing3 = 0xffffffff;
+               }
+       }
+
        /* Start off by resetting the NAND controller completely */
        cafe_writel(cafe, 1, NAND_RESET);
        cafe_writel(cafe, 0, NAND_RESET);
 
-       cafe_writel(cafe, 0xffffffff, NAND_IRQ_MASK);
+       cafe_writel(cafe, timing1, NAND_TIMING1);
+       cafe_writel(cafe, timing2, NAND_TIMING2);
+       cafe_writel(cafe, timing3, NAND_TIMING3);
 
-       /* Timings from Marvell's test code (not verified or calculated by us) */
-       if (!slowtiming) {
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0x01010a0a, NAND_TIMING1);
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0x24121212, NAND_TIMING2);
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0x11000000, NAND_TIMING3);
-       } else {
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0xffffffff, NAND_TIMING1);
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0xffffffff, NAND_TIMING2);
-               cafe_writel(cafe, 0xffffffff, NAND_TIMING3);
-       }
        cafe_writel(cafe, 0xffffffff, NAND_IRQ_MASK);
        err = request_irq(pdev->irq, &cafe_nand_interrupt, SA_SHIRQ, "CAFE NAND", mtd);
        if (err) {
                dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Could not register IRQ %d\n", pdev->irq);
-
                goto out_free_dma;
        }
 #if 1