On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:55 -0500, Lance Ware wrote:
> I am using yaffs2 and i am looking at the arrangement of the extended
> tags areas. My question is i have a Samsung chip which uses bad block
> markers at the 0 byte of the 64-byte spare area. But when i pass the
> extended tags parameter to my nand_write function, the bad block maker
> is overwritten with the tag information.
What is your nand_write function ? Userspace application ?
> I was wondering was their a way to change the arrangement of the bad
> block marker.
No
> Or should i handle this in the mtd-layer. I was wondering what the
> layout of the extended tag area supposed to be in the nand spare area.
The mtd layer uses a autoplacement scheme, which respects the reserved
bytes in the oob area (bad block marker, ECC)
tglx
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