RE: Adding subpage support to NAND driver -- backwards compatibility concerns

2015-04-22 Thread Iwo Mergler
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 03:29:44 +1000 Ben Shelton wrote: > We'd like to upstream our patch, but my concern is that UBIFS behaves > differently when it knows that the flash device supports subpages. I > have a couple of questions related to that: > > - I know from experience that bad things happen

RE: Adding subpage support to NAND driver -- backwards compatibility concerns

2015-04-23 Thread Iwo Mergler
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:30:55 +1000 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 23.04.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Josh Cartwright: > > Is there no metadata in the UBI data structures in flash that > > indicate the min IO boundary? Assuming no, is another option to, > > at the time of attach, try both the min IO ac

RE: [PATCH] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

2014-09-28 Thread Iwo Mergler
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:36:16 +1000 Boris BREZILLON wrote: > > Well, I don't know about freescale specific tools, but at least I have > an example with mtd_nandbiterrs module. > This module is assuming it can write only the data part of a NAND page > without modifying the OOB area (see [1]), which

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

2014-10-13 Thread Iwo Mergler
> > No, it doesn't seem to be correct. > But it's an MLC flash, so you'll most probably need to apply this patch > to nandbiterrs testsuite: > > http://code.bulix.org/f69wuu-87021 > > This patch is flashing the block between each bitflip insertion to > avoid multiple write without erasure (which,

RE: [PATCH] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

2014-10-02 Thread Iwo Mergler
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:04:15 +1000 Boris Brezillon wrote: > Hi Iwo, > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:22:11 +1000 > Iwo Mergler wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:36:16 +1000 > > Boris BREZILLON wrote: > > > > > > Well, I don't know about free

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

2014-10-19 Thread Iwo Mergler
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:20:38 +1100 Huang Shijie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:50:27PM +1100, Iwo Mergler wrote: > > > > > > > > No, it doesn't seem to be correct. > > > But it's an MLC flash, so you'll most probably need to apply this >