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Author: ian@brightstareng.com
Date:  
To: He Yong
CC: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Questions about NAND spare space orgnizations with HWECC in Yaffs2
He,

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 01:42, He Yong wrote:
> I get yaffs2 working without ECC tags ( struct
> (yaffs_ECCOther) ). Now, yaffs2 only takes 12 bytes of Nand
> spare area, and our HWECC has enough space to store 36 bytes
> of parity code.  Thanks!


So are you saying that the underlying hardware has some form
of ECC check/correction not only for the pages primary data (2k
bytes), but also for the spare/oob/tags data as written/read by
the application (mtd/yaffs)? If not, simply dropping the
mini-ecc is not so safe.

Thanks for the patch.