Jerry Johns wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently we manufactured our own custom boards with NAND > chips, and we'r noticing that during ftl_format of the chip, it > doesn't skip over bad blocks in NAND - can someone verify is skipping > bad blocks is already supported in the montavista kernel for davinci? > Can you please describe the whole setup? Why are you using ftl_format?
> I've looked at the nand driver, and there seems to be a file called > nand_bbt.c, located in drivers/mtd/nand, and it seems to support this > assumption; however, in nand_davinci.c, the this->options for the > driver is set to 0 (I think you need to set it to NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT > to enable the bad block table feature... > Can you please elaborate on what you mean by 'skipping bad blocks'? BTW, please keep in mind that the MTD/NAND layer is capable of determining whether a block is bad or not without NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT. Thanks, Vitaly _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
