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From: Timo Ketola <timo@exertus.fi>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:39:44 +0300
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/9] imx: nand: Place BBT patterns into free
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On 13.04.2012 21:17, Scott Wood wrote:
> It looks like Linux wants the BBT to be at offset zero.

I have not dug too deeply into the BBT logic in kernel but maybe it could be 
possible to place BBT patterns over the factory markers. Then, when the code 
scans for BBT blocks, it should ignore factory markers and react only on BBT 
patterns. But I don't really know if this is the idea in kernel.

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Timo