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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Sudeep K N <sudeepholla.maillist@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: UBI - Nand bad block management details required
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:10:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182507030.4403.80.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <366f00c80706220306l1e0ebcek3c7cdc988c82de81@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:36 +0530, Sudeep K N wrote:
> Does the UBI depend on the bad block table(BBT) built by MTD?

Yes, it asks MTD if blocks are bad or not.

> In otherwords, can the complete chip scan during chip probe be avoided
> by enabling/setting NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN in chip->options?

No, UBI relies on MTD in this. MTD supports on-flash BBT tables, so if
you do not want MTD level to do full chip scan you should use on-flash
BBT.

> Does UBI built BBT independent of the MTD built BBT?

No, it relies on MTD.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 10:06 UBI - Nand bad block management details required Sudeep K N
2007-06-22 10:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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