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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mtd: mxc_nand: limit the size of used oob
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Hi Fabio,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:20:32PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > That's surprising. It would be interesting to hear from Freescale what
> > is wrong here (Fabio? Maybe contact support?). I quickly skimmed through
> > the errata documents but didn't found anything. So it's not only that
> 
> Yes, that's something I am not aware of either.
> 
> Please contact the FSL support folks so that the hardware guys could
> assist on this topic.

Our past experience with hardware support at the micro level was not all that 
great. Anyway, I dropped the limit to 128 for oobsize < 218, since this is 
only a theoretic bug, and I can't really test it.

Thanks,
baruch

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