Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS2 on 512byte page NAND

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Author: Charles Manning
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To: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS2 on 512byte page NAND
On Friday 23 April 2010 14:52:32 Sudeep K N wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Thanks for your response.
> The YAFFS2 image has a sequence of 2K data chunk followed 64 bytes
> of tag/metadata. For 2K page that have access to spare area, this can go
> into single page main + spare area. But for 512 byte page NAND device,
> how do we need to write this 2048+64 bytes.
>
> I understood the mounting part as you have mentioned in the mail,
> we are using boot loader to write the image and would be interested to
> know how this data needs to be written on a 512+16 byte page NAND device.


Hello Sudeep

The standard mkyaffs2image tool does not yet support inband tags or anything
other than 2k page size.

If you want to use mkyaffs2image you will need to make some modifications.

-- Charles