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

Richard GENOUD richard.genoud at bootlin.com
Thu Mar 12 03:39:40 PDT 2026


Le 09/03/2026 à 16:27, Miquel Raynal a écrit :
> 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"?
yes indeed.

Thanks !

> 
>> 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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