Re: [PATCH] mtd: gpmi: make blockmark swapping optional

From: Juergen Beisert
Date: Thu Mar 20 2014 - 04:31:44 EST


Hi Lothar,

On Wednesday 19 March 2014 14:23:26 y@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> With a flash-based BBT there is no reason to move the Factory Bad
> Block Marker from the data area buffer (to where it is mapped by the
> GPMI NAND controller) to the OOB buffer. Thus, make this feature
> configurable via DT. This is required for the Ka-Ro electronics
> platforms.
> [...]

How do you create the BBT the very first time with valuable data when the NAND
already contains factory bad blocks?

jbe

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