Micron NAND support in linux MTD

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, llandre wrote:

> if JFFS2/MTD check first page only. Datasheet says:
>
> "The factory identifies invalid blocks before shipping by programming 
> data other than FFh (x8) or FFFFh (x16) into the first spare location 
> (column address 2,048 for x8 devices, or 1,024 for x16 devices) *of the 
> first or second page of each bad block*."

The option of programming the second page is probably a last resort in 
case the first page is so bad that it cannot be programmed at all, which I 
would think is most unlikely.

/Ricard