Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to supportlarge-page Nand chip

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 16:19:47 EST


On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:15 -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> NAND chips come from the factory with bad blocks marked at a certain
> offset into each page. This offset is normally in the OOB area, but
> since we change the layout from "4k data, 128 byte oob" to "2k data, 64
> byte oob, 2k data, 64 byte oob" the marker is no longer in the oob. On
> first use we need to migrate the markers so that they are still in the oob.

Ah, I see, thanks. Are you planning to implement in-kernel migration or
use a user-space tool?

Artem.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/