MLC nand driver for linux

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Tue Feb 23 03:57:17 EST 2010


On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:

> I've used MICRON and SAMSUNG MLC NAND's without any problems.
>
> The MICRON NAND's were ONFI devices and even they worked well.

What do you do about ECC for these devices? As I understand MLC flash 
requires stronger ECC algorithms than the 1 bit / 256 byte algorithm which 
is by default implemented in software by mtd. Do the flash chips or the 
system you are using have hardware ECC?

/Ricard
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