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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 1/1] mtd: gpmi: make blockmark swapping optional
Hi,

Huang Shijie wrote:
> > > Please see "Figure 12-13" in the 12.12.1.12:
> > > "In order to preserve the BI (bad block information), flash updater
> > > or gang programmer
> > > applications need to swap Bad Block Information (BI) data to byte 0 of
> > > metadata area for
> > > every page before programming NAND Flash. ROM when loading firmware,
> > > copies back
> > > the value at metadata[0] to BI offset in page data. The following figure
> > > shows how the
> > > factory bad block marker is preserved."
> > >
> > The inspection of the BB markers is only a fallback for the case that
> > there is no DBBT. From the same chapter that you quoted above:
> > | ROM uses DBBT to skip any bad block that falls within firmware data
> > | on NAND Flash device.
> > | If the address of DBBT Search Area in FCB is 0, ROM will rely on
> > | factory marked bad block markers to find out if a block is good or bad.
> >
> > Thus, even the boot ROM of i.MX28 can well live without blockmark
> > swapping.
>
> Assume that there is a NAND block "A", and the A consist of 256 pages.
> the uboot is burned to the "A", can occupy 6 pages:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | page 0 | page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 | ... | ... | page 255 |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> \-------------------------------------- ------------------------------------/
> V
> "A"
>
> The DBBT is used to track if "A" is bad or not.
> Assume we know that "A" is a good block, ROM then need to read out the uboot.
> When the ROM needs to read out the 6 pages one by one. And each time the ROM read
> the page, it should do the swapping for this page.
>
> In this case, the ROM will do the swapping six times.
>
> Please read the sector again, you will see the "every page" in it:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> "In order to preserve the BI (bad block information), flash updater
> or gang programmer applications need to swap Bad Block Information (BI) data to byte 0 of
> metadata area for every page before programming NAND Flash. ROM when loading firmware,
> copies back
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
I can assure you that the >100.000 i.MX28 based modules, that we sold
up to now boot from NAND just fine without any block mark swapping in
the U-Boot pages.


Lothar Waßmann
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