From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1YQWQF-0002hw-3r for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:30:19 +0000 Message-ID: <54ED79F1.4080300@codeaurora.org> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:29:53 +0200 From: Tanya Brokhman MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Weinberger , Ricard Wanderlof Subject: Re: fastmap support in ubinize? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux mtd List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 2/19/2015 4:05 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Ricard Wanderlof > wrote: >> >> Was flashmap support ever added to ubinize ? I can't see any reference to >> it in the code, unless it is implicit somehow. > > No. > > I hope Tanya is allowed to share her code soon such that I can review it. in the middle of getting legal approval. hoping it will be resolved soon. > Adding fastmap to ubinize is not trivial as you can run into problems > when your flash has bad blocks. > i.e, If fastmap refers to PEB XY but PEB XY is bad. Then the flasher > would have to be a) UBI aware and b) had to fixup the fastmap on-fly. > Thanks, Tanya Brokhman -- Qualcomm Israel, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project