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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:09:14 +0100
From: Lothar =?UTF-8?B?V2HDn21hbm4=?= <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
To: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: gpmi: make blockmark swapping optional
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Hi,

Huang Shijie wrote:
> =E4=BA=8E 2014=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8820=E6=97=A5 17:21, Lothar Wa=C3=9Fmann =
=E5=86=99=E9=81=93:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Huang Shijie wrote:
> >> =E4=BA=8E 2014=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8819=E6=97=A5 21:23, y@karo-electronic=
s.de =E5=86=99=E9=81=93:
> >>> configurable via DT. This is required for the Ka-Ro electronics
> >>> platforms.
> >>>
> >> If you disable the swapping, you will disable the NAND boot in actuall=
y.
> >>
> > No. All our modules do boot from NAND and none of them does the
> > swapping.
> >
> >
> It seems the NAND boot runs well by luck.
>=20
> The ROM will do the swapping when it reads the BBT table written by the=20
> kobs-ng (or something else?).
>=20
This can be disabled by parameter in the FCB (at least according to
the i.MX6 reference Manual):
|DISBBM 172 4 If 0 ROM will swap BadBlockMarkerByte with
|             metadata[0] after reading a page using BCH40.
|             If the value set is 1 then ROM will not do
|             swapping


Lothar Wa=C3=9Fmann
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