Limited support of NAND features in MTD.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Dec 18 13:14:32 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:56 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 18 December 2007 08:57:58 -0800, David Brown wrote:
> > 
> > One problem with the on-chip copy is that ECC doesn't get corrected.  If
> > there are errors on readback, it will get written that way, and errors
> > would accumulate.
> 
> Ouch!  Such an implementation would indeed make this whole business
> pointless.

That's fairly much been my conclusion every time I've looked at the new
features we haven't yet bothered to support. Partial page read also
suffers from lack of ECC.

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dwmw2




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