On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:49:28 Rick Bronson wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > Thanks very much for all of the help. > > I've got just one more question, if you don't mind. I promise not > to bug you after this one ;-) > > The issue for us in using the mkyaffs2image or the nandwrite is > that we would have to tftp around these huge files that represent > each of our yaffs partitions. So for example, when we want to format > a yaffs partition we would have to do: > > flash_eraseall --jffs2 /dev/mtd1 > nanddump -l 1 /dev/mtd1 > fs1r.bin > nandwrite -n -o /dev/mtd1 fs1r.bin > > I could skip step 2 above but it would require me to tftp over the > fs1r.bin image which is quite large. > > It would be really nice if there is a way to yaffs erase a partition > without either 1) making files on-the-fly or 2) tftp'ing over big > partition files. Can you tell me what you think is the best > (easiest?) way to accomplish this? I'm unsure as to exactly what you're trying to accomplish here. To erase a yaffs partition all you need to do is flash_eraseall. An erased partition is a formatted one. I suspect you're trying to achieve more than just that. > > Thanks very much. > > Rick > > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Rick Bronson wrote: > > > > Yes, I did. > > > > I did not do mkyaffs. It's not needed. You just erase the NAND with MTD > > utils then copy the image generated with mkyaffs2image with nand_copy or > > however it's called with the option telling that image contains OOB data. > > > > Sorry, I don't have time to return to that YAFFS thing right now, being > > busy with TI DaVinci hardware bringup etc. I will return to it in > > probably a month to properly port it to the new kernels with all the > > tools etc. > > > > > Hi Sergey, > > > > > > Did you get my last email? Just wondered... > > > > > > Thanks much. > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > To: ksi@koi8.net > > > In-reply-to: > > > Subject: Re: mkyaffs for yaffs2 > > > Reply-To: rick@efn.org > > > References: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oops. > > > > > > Actually, I was looking for a mkyaffs.c that I can use to erase a > > > partition and format it to yaffs. mkyaffs2image doesn't do me much > > > good. Maybe I misunderstood your mailing list posting > > > http://lists.aleph1.co.uk/pipermail/yaffs/2006q2/001985.html > > > > > > Or maybe you are implying that I need to take you changes to > > > mkyaffs2image and apply them to the old mkyaffs.c??? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Rick > > > > --- > > ****************************************************************** > > * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * > > * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * > > ****************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > yaffs mailing list > yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk > http://lists.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaffs