On 5/8/07, David Goodenough <david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:
> I have no idea what data is in the OOB data, I have never met a
> tool that would show me.  Can you tell me how to read it?

Please use nanddump.

> As I said later in the note to which you replied, Microtik do
> ship a version of Yaffs suitable for linux 2.4, I am trying to
> get it to work with Linux 2.6.19+.  I have no idea what licences
> Microtik have from Aleph1, I presume that they have one for their
> boot loader.  The point however is that Yaffs on 2.6.16 and below
> work, that with 2.6.19 seem not to - or I have not found the right
> combination of options.  Resolving this is the point of my question.

Since 2.6.18, the whole MTD susbystem in kernel has been reworked quite a bit.
Can you please provide the OOB dumps for the working case?
I guess BTW, that since you were using 2.4, your NAND chip has 512b
page. Is that correct?

Thanks,
   Vitaly