> > It looks like the oob is accessible but in a slightly restriced way.
> > Hopefully this can all be hidden from yaffs per se via the mtd layer.
> > Are there plans to support OneNAND Thomas?
> > 
> In principle yes, but I still wait for the Samsung driver to show up or
> a contract to do it myself :)
> 
Ok.

> > I note the mtd thread in Feb started by samsung (starting from
> > 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-February/01186
> 0.html). The mood seemed to be to split off OneNAND from generic 
> nand as the access is so different. I was unclear whether this 
> presents OneNAND as non generic NAND mtd technology possibly 
> requiring changes to yaffs eg the test for the device being an 
> "mtd-nand" at mount time.
> 
> I'm not sure either. I have just skimmed the datasheet, but it might be
> possible to setup a NAND compatible API 
> 

It looks like there are only 2 bytes of user usable data in the "spare" area. Although yaffs won't need to do so much ecc it looks like yaffs will have a problem with that little spare space unless one can use bigger virtual blocks. Charles?

Nick

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