[PATCH]erase block header(revision 4)
Artem B. Bityutskiy
dedekind at yandex.ru
Sun Oct 9 03:06:17 EDT 2005
zhao forrest wrote:
> It's true that "c->cleanmarker_size was 0" for NAND flash.
> But besides NAND flash, "c->cleanmarker_size was 0" is also true
> for dataflash. That means that cleanmarker was not needed for
> dataflash for some reason that I don't know :)
DataFlash is has a minimum IO unit (DataFlash block, 528/1056 AFAIR),
and has no OOB. So the cleanmarker would consume the whole DataFlash
block which considered wasteful I suppose.
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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
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