Add support for BBT without touching OOB area

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 16:11:00 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 19:43 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Without this patch (number three) NAND controllers which use complete OOB
> area for ECC information can not use a BBT at all. The vendor bit is
> gone after the first write and the flash BBT stores a marker in the OOB
> area. The patch simply moves the marker into the data area.
> 
> The series contains:
> - [PATCH 1/5] mtd/nand: use ALIGN where possible
> - [PATCH 2/5] mtd/nand: pull in td into read_bbt()
> clean up.

Pushed these to l2-mtd-2.6.git.

> - [PATCH 3/5] mtd/nand: add support for BBT without OOB
> adds the functionality.

Sent some minor requests.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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