[PATCH v2 3/6] mtd: rawnand: sunxi: do not count BBM bytes twice

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Mon Mar 9 08:27:42 PDT 2026


Hello Richard,

On 05/03/2026 at 11:01:34 +01, Richard Genoud <richard.genoud at bootlin.com> wrote:

> BBM is part of USER_DATA section, so we should remove it twice

Maybe you mean "is already part" and as such the end of the sentence
should be that "we should *not* remove it twice"?

> This was working ok because we are on the safe size, advertising that
> there was 2 bytes less available than in reality.
>
> But we can't change old platforms, since it may lead to a different ECC
> strength, so, introduce a legacy flag for old platforms, and switch the
> new platforms to the correct count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud at bootlin.com>

Thanks,
Miquèl



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