linux-stable/drivers/mtd
Kevin Cernekee b60b08b02c mtd: nand: support alternate BB marker locations on MLC
This is a slightly modified version of a patch submitted last year by
Reuben Dowle <reuben.dowle@navico.com>.  His original comments follow:

This patch adds support for some MLC NAND flashes that place the BB
marker in the LAST page of the bad block rather than the FIRST page used
for SLC NAND and other types of MLC nand.

Lifted from Samsung datasheet for K9LG8G08U0A (1Gbyte MLC NAND):
"
Identifying Initial Invalid Block(s)
All device locations are erased(FFh) except locations where the initial
invalid block(s) information is written prior to shipping. The initial
invalid block(s) status is defined by the 1st byte in the spare area.
Samsung makes sure that the last page of every initial invalid block has
non-FFh data at the column address of 2,048.
...
"

As far as I can tell, this is the same for all Samsung MLC nand, and in
fact the samsung bsp for the processor used in our project (s3c6410)
actually contained a hack similar to this patch but less portable to
enable use of their NAND parts. I discovered this problem when trying to
use a Micron NAND which does not used this layout - I wish samsung would
put their stuff in main-line to avoid this type of problem.

Currently this patch causes all MLC nand with manufacturer codes from
Samsung and ST(Numonyx) to use this alternative location, since these
are the manufactures that I know of that use this layout.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-05-14 01:56:12 +01:00
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chips mtd: jedec_probe: remove spaces before tabs 2010-05-14 01:49:03 +01:00
devices mtd: sst25l: fix multi-part messages with broken spi masters 2010-05-14 01:52:24 +01:00
lpddr drivers/mtd: Use kzalloc 2010-05-13 21:23:06 +01:00
maps mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the parition probe 2010-05-14 00:32:30 +01:00
nand mtd: nand: support alternate BB marker locations on MLC 2010-05-14 01:56:12 +01:00
onenand mtd: add Samsung SoC OneNAND driver 2010-05-14 01:51:20 +01:00
tests drivers/mtd: Use kzalloc 2010-05-13 21:23:06 +01:00
ubi include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
afs.c
ar7part.c
cmdlinepart.c
ftl.c mtd: blktrans: Hotplug fixes 2010-02-26 17:05:26 +00:00
inftlcore.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-03-26 14:55:59 +00:00
inftlmount.c mtd: inftl: misplaced parenthesis in find_boot_record 2010-02-26 13:22:07 +00:00
Kconfig mtd: sm_ftl: remove CONFIG_SM_FTL_MUSEUM and make it always on 2010-03-26 15:28:59 +00:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-05-10 14:32:46 +01:00
mtd_blkdevs.c mtd: blktrans: do blk_cleanup_queue when it is really safe to do so 2010-03-08 18:57:42 -08:00
mtdblock.c mtd: Few follow up cleanups for Smartmedia/xD support 2010-02-26 20:13:49 +00:00
mtdblock_ro.c mtd: mtdblock: test return value of add_mtd_blktrans_dev, because if can fail 2010-02-26 17:05:46 +00:00
mtdchar.c mtdchar: Register the full range of minor numbers 2010-02-25 12:46:04 +00:00
mtdconcat.c
mtdcore.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-05-10 14:32:46 +01:00
mtdcore.h mtd: Replace static array of devices with an idr structure 2010-02-25 11:55:14 +00:00
mtdoops.c mtd: Remove unnecessary comparisons with MAX_MTD_DEVICES 2010-02-25 11:39:09 +00:00
mtdpart.c
mtdsuper.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-05-10 14:32:46 +01:00
nftlcore.c mtd: blktrans: Hotplug fixes 2010-02-26 17:05:26 +00:00
nftlmount.c
ofpart.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
redboot.c
rfd_ftl.c mtd: blktrans: Hotplug fixes 2010-02-26 17:05:26 +00:00
sm_ftl.c bitops: rename for_each_bit() to for_each_set_bit(): mtd 2010-04-08 09:42:41 +01:00
sm_ftl.h mtd: Add new SmartMedia/xD FTL 2010-02-26 19:06:50 +00:00
ssfdc.c mtd: blktrans: Hotplug fixes 2010-02-26 17:05:26 +00:00