[PATCH v3 0/6] NAND BBM + BBT updates

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 03:27:42 EST 2012


[Sorry, did not finish the e-mail :-)]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 10:23 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Well, I am 100% not sure of course. But think that because marking blocks as bad using OOB is
> the standard way, and vendors know about this, and they know that flash
> bad blocks become bad, they will probably make try to make this
> mechanism work for the users. But even if this is not true for a
> specific chip, then the users should have BBT, and it will be used. But
> I do not believe that 

that current MTD BBT is reliable enough for modern flashes. For such
a hypothetical chip ti would have to be carefully assessed.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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