[NAND] Do we support COPY_BACK operation in nand flash?

David Brown mtd at davidb.org
Fri Dec 5 11:28:31 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 04:22:09PM +0800, Du Zhongdong wrote:

>I'm trying to writing a mtd-based driver for HY27UK08BGFM nand flash,
>and in the data sheet, there's a COPY-BACK program which is
>'configured to quickly and efficiently rewrite data stored in one page
>without utilizing an external memory.'

Do keep in mind that copy-back doesn't verify the ECC on the data, so
if it is used for garbage collection errors will accumulate.

David



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