S3C6410 INSTALLATION MANUAL UBI(UNSORTED BLOCK IMAGES) V1.0

1 Introduction

1.1Purpose

Ubi is general purpose flash management layer which has similar functionality as the Logical Volume Manager. The basic idea is that the UBI layer provides the management for multiple logical volumes, which can contain either static data or dynamic contents e.g. file systems.

This guide will explain the initial steps for Installing UBI(Unsorted Block Image) and how to compile Linux Kernel.

1.2Overview

UBI Supports as follows:

Bad Block Management

Wear leveling across the device(s)

Logical to Physical block mapping

Volume information storage

Device information

FIGURE 1 UBI/MTD Integration

Preliminary product information describe products that are in development,

 

for which full characterization data and associated errata are not yet available.

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Specifications and information herein are subject to change without notice.