A question about reading newly erased page with NAND_ECC_SOFT.

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Aug 30 18:29:38 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:11 -0700, Han Chang wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> For a newly erased page, the content of both user data and oob are 0xff. If 
> NAND_ECC_SOFT is enabled, the ecc code in the oob, which is 0xff, is not 
> right ecc code. Then if the file system tries to read a newly erased page, 
> it will be problem. Does anyone know how to get around this?

It is correct. The software based ECC value of all 0xFF is 0xFF

	tglx






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