partitions and erase regions

[David Woodhouse]

kd at flaga.is said:
>  How does JFFS[2] deal with the whole flash chip today? If it just
> deals with 'major' erase size then it shurely must simply ingore the
> first/last part (with 'minor' erase sizes) of the chip. 

It just ignores the fact that it has minor erase sizes. If you have 8*8K + 
15*64K, then JFFS2 will just treat all the 8 minor blocks as a single 
normal-sized block, and will only ever ask the flash driver to erase them 
all together.

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dwmw2




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