nand_default_bbt and x8 large page nand devices
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Jan 5 15:31:26 EST 2009
Nishanth Menon wrote:
> I guess the real question could be: is this a bug in reality? Do all x8 large
> page devices expect 1 byte bb marker or is it just micron?
It's not so much a bug as just a wasted byte -- any good block should
contain all FFs from the factory, so unless software chooses to use it
for something else (or the controller insists on putting ECC there) it
should be harmless to treat the bad block marker as if it were two bytes.
-Scott
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