[U-Boot] mtdparts: add bad-block skipping

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jun 2 00:20:54 CEST 2010


Dear Ben Gardiner,

In message <1275423827-5803-1-git-send-email-bengardiner at nanometrics.ca> you wrote:
> This patch series is based on the idea of Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>
> and the comments of Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> [1]. I started with Harald's
> original patch and migrated it to a new mtdparts sub-command and added an
> interface to the new functionality via a 'mtdparts add' variant.
> 
> I tried to keep it at the level of the mtd subsystem. Whereas the dynparts patch
> was limited to NAND flashes, I believe this patch will work on any mtd device
> that can report bad blocks.

Has this been tested on NOR flash devices, too?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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