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Peter Barada a écrit :
> I'm working with a Micron POP part for an omap3530, and I need to write
> pages in the boot block using the builtin Hamming ECC(as the bootrom
> expects it), but the rest of the blocks I want to use the NAND's builtin
> 4-bit ECC engine.
> 
> Is there any way to specify the ECC method on a per-partition basis?
>
No, but you can write in raw mode and compute the ecc in userspace.

  Matthieu