diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
index 458d59634688..a011fdf61dbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ Optional properties:
                        discoverable or this property is not enabled,
                        the software may chooses an implementation-defined
                        ECC scheme.
+  - fsl,no-blockmark-swap: Don't swap the bad block marker from the OOB
+                       area with the byte in the data area but rely on the
+                       flash based BBT for identifying bad blocks.
+                       NOTE: this is only valid in conjunction with
+                             'nand-on-flash-bbt'.
+                       WARNING: on i.MX28 blockmark swapping cannot be
+                       disabled for the BootROM in the FCB. Thus,
+                       partitions written from Linux with this feature
+                       turned on may not be accessible by the BootROM
+                       code.
 
 The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the
 address space. See partition.txt for more detail.
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
index 16a533a78edd..959cb9b70310 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_subpage(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 	int first, last, marker_pos;
 	int ecc_parity_size;
 	int col = 0;
+	int old_swap_block_mark = this->swap_block_mark;
 
 	/* The size of ECC parity */
 	ecc_parity_size = geo->gf_len * geo->ecc_strength / 8;
@@ -1089,17 +1090,21 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_subpage(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 	first = offs / size;
 	last = (offs + len - 1) / size;
 
-	/*
-	 * Find the chunk which contains the Block Marker. If this chunk is
-	 * in the range of [first, last], we have to read out the whole page.
-	 * Why? since we had swapped the data at the position of Block Marker
-	 * to the metadata which is bound with the chunk 0.
-	 */
-	marker_pos = geo->block_mark_byte_offset / size;
-	if (last >= marker_pos && first <= marker_pos) {
-		dev_dbg(this->dev, "page:%d, first:%d, last:%d, marker at:%d\n",
+	if (this->swap_block_mark) {
+		/*
+		 * Find the chunk which contains the Block Marker.
+		 * If this chunk is in the range of [first, last],
+		 * we have to read out the whole page.
+		 * Why? since we had swapped the data at the position of Block
+		 * Marker to the metadata which is bound with the chunk 0.
+		 */
+		marker_pos = geo->block_mark_byte_offset / size;
+		if (last >= marker_pos && first <= marker_pos) {
+			dev_dbg(this->dev,
+				"page:%d, first:%d, last:%d, marker at:%d\n",
 				page, first, last, marker_pos);
-		return gpmi_ecc_read_page(mtd, chip, buf, 0, page);
+			return gpmi_ecc_read_page(mtd, chip, buf, 0, page);
+		}
 	}
 
 	meta = geo->metadata_size;
@@ -1145,7 +1150,7 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_subpage(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 	writel(r1_old, bch_regs + HW_BCH_FLASH0LAYOUT0);
 	writel(r2_old, bch_regs + HW_BCH_FLASH0LAYOUT1);
 	this->bch_geometry = old_geo;
-	this->swap_block_mark = true;
+	this->swap_block_mark = old_swap_block_mark;
 
 	return max_bitflips;
 }
@@ -1309,10 +1314,10 @@ static int gpmi_ecc_read_oob(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip *chip,
 
 	/*
 	 * Now, we want to make sure the block mark is correct. In the
-	 * Swapping/Raw case, we already have it. Otherwise, we need to
-	 * explicitly read it.
+	 * non-transcribing case (!GPMI_IS_MX23()), we already have it.
+	 * Otherwise, we need to explicitly read it.
 	 */
-	if (!this->swap_block_mark) {
+	if (GPMI_IS_MX23(this)) {
 		/* Read the block mark into the first byte of the OOB buffer. */
 		chip->cmdfunc(mtd, NAND_CMD_READ0, 0, page);
 		chip->oob_poi[0] = chip->read_byte(mtd);
@@ -1353,7 +1358,7 @@ static int gpmi_block_markbad(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t ofs)
 	chipnr = (int)(ofs >> chip->chip_shift);
 	chip->select_chip(mtd, chipnr);
 
-	column = this->swap_block_mark ? mtd->writesize : 0;
+	column = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this) ? mtd->writesize : 0;
 
 	/* Write the block mark. */
 	block_mark = this->data_buffer_dma;
@@ -1649,9 +1654,6 @@ static int gpmi_init_last(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
 	struct bch_geometry *bch_geo = &this->bch_geometry;
 	int ret;
 
-	/* Set up swap_block_mark, must be set before the gpmi_set_geometry() */
-	this->swap_block_mark = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this);
-
 	/* Set up the medium geometry */
 	ret = gpmi_set_geometry(this);
 	if (ret)
@@ -1715,9 +1717,20 @@ static int gpmi_nand_init(struct gpmi_nand_data *this)
 	chip->badblock_pattern	= &gpmi_bbt_descr;
 	chip->block_markbad	= gpmi_block_markbad;
 	chip->options		|= NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE;
-	if (of_get_nand_on_flash_bbt(this->dev->of_node))
+
+	/* Set up swap_block_mark, must be set before the gpmi_set_geometry() */
+	this->swap_block_mark = !GPMI_IS_MX23(this);
+
+	if (of_get_nand_on_flash_bbt(this->dev->of_node)) {
 		chip->bbt_options |= NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH | NAND_BBT_NO_OOB;
 
+		if (of_property_read_bool(this->dev->of_node,
+						"fsl,no-blockmark-swap"))
+			this->swap_block_mark = false;
+	}
+	dev_dbg(this->dev, "Blockmark swapping %sabled\n",
+		this->swap_block_mark ? "en" : "dis");
+
 	/*
 	 * Allocate a temporary DMA buffer for reading ID in the
 	 * nand_scan_ident().