Limited support of NAND features in MTD.
Alexey Korolev
akorolev at infradead.org
Wed Dec 19 05:49:29 EST 2007
Hi David,
>
> 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.
Hmm I did not heard about this. Could you please give more details on how
partial page read can suffer from lack of ECC?
Thanks,
Alexey
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