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From: dedekind1@gmail.com (Artem Bityutskiy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: GPMI-NAND Status?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:22:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313425340.8691.34.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110814081139.GD17063@parrot.com>

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 10:11 +0200, Ivan Djelic wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:51:33PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> (...)
> > 
> > problem overwriting all-0xff data in NAND [2]
> > =============================================
> > 
> > Although it occured only when writing JFFS2 images so far, this is a generic
> > issue and needs to be fixed, right?
> > 
> > 
> (...)
> > [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-July/037104.html
> 
> As explained in the thread linked above, this issue should be fixed in your
> flashing tool, _not_ in your driver. The nand device you are using does not
> support programming pages multiple times in a row; pretending it does in the
> special all-0xff case is inefficient (you need to detect all-0xff data) and
> unnecessary (just do not program blank pages !).

Hmm, isn't it also buggy because if my precious data contains 2KiB of
0xFFs (aligned to 2KiB boundary) then I will have no ECC protection for
this page? Or I miss something?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-15 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05 13:51 GPMI-NAND Status? Wolfram Sang
2011-08-08  6:21 ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-08  9:19   ` Koen Beel
2011-08-08 10:37     ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-08 12:42       ` Koen Beel
2011-08-09  6:36         ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09  7:58           ` Koen Beel
2011-08-09  8:18             ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09  8:25               ` Koen Beel
2011-08-09  5:11     ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09  6:25       ` Koen Beel
2011-08-09  6:40         ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09  9:45     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-08-09  9:35   ` Wolfram Sang
2011-08-09 10:54     ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09 20:42       ` Wolfram Sang
2011-08-08  9:12 ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09  9:19   ` Wolfram Sang
2011-08-09 10:41     ` Huang Shijie
2011-08-09 11:36       ` Lothar Waßmann
2011-08-14  8:11 ` Ivan Djelic
2011-08-14 18:31   ` Wolfram Sang
2011-08-15  5:41   ` Lothar Waßmann
2011-08-15  6:30     ` Lin Tony-B19295
2011-08-15  8:41       ` Ivan Djelic
2011-08-15  8:29     ` Ivan Djelic
2011-08-15  9:31       ` Lothar Waßmann
2011-08-15 12:54         ` Ivan Djelic
2011-08-15 13:37           ` Lothar Waßmann
2011-08-15 16:34         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-15 16:18     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-15 16:22   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-08-15 16:57     ` Ivan Djelic

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