UBI - Nand bad block management details required

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri Jun 22 06:10:30 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:36 +0530, Sudeep K N wrote:
> Does the UBI depend on the bad block table(BBT) built by MTD?

Yes, it asks MTD if blocks are bad or not.

> In otherwords, can the complete chip scan during chip probe be avoided
> by enabling/setting NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN in chip->options?

No, UBI relies on MTD in this. MTD supports on-flash BBT tables, so if
you do not want MTD level to do full chip scan you should use on-flash
BBT.

> Does UBI built BBT independent of the MTD built BBT?

No, it relies on MTD.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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