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From: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
To: Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@hisilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: increase max page/OOB size to support 16K pagesize
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:10:10AM +0000, Caizhiyong wrote:
> 
> There are a lot of 16K page size NAND, they are used in android system.
> 
> Many NAND need read retry and data randomization, kernel does not support this feature.
Brian is adding the read-retry feature.

I think the data randomization should be done by the hardware.
If we do it by software, it costs lot of the cpu cycles.


> Kernel also does not support synchronous NAND.

The synchronous NAND should be supported by the nand controller driver,
not the kernel.


thanks
Huang Shijie