From manningc2@actrix.gen.nz Wed Jul 15 23:14:20 2009 Received: from smtp.firstline.co.nz ([203.167.210.162] helo=firstline.co.nz) by stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MRCjq-0003Sn-QX for yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:14:20 +0100 Received: (qmail 23480 invoked by uid 453); 15 Jul 2009 22:13:55 -0000 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on firstline.co.nz Received: from Unknown (HELO linux-dual-head.local) (10.14.210.25) by firstline.co.nz (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:13:55 +1200 From: Charles Manning To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:13:54 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907161013.54397.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.167.210.162 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk) Subject: Re: [Yaffs] yaffs2 support for linux 2.6.23 X-BeenThere: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of YAFFS NAND flash filesystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:14:20 -0000 On Thursday 16 July 2009 02:46:24 Rupesh Kumar wrote: > Hi > I am using custom board based on MPC8313 processor. I have 2.6.23 kernel > running on it . I tried for YAFFS2 support on this kernel. > For this i downloaded "yaffs2.tar.gz" for this kernel and compiled kernel > with yaffs2 support. > I used "mkyaffs2image" utility to generate rootfs image and then i wrote > this rootfs image to one of nand partition. mkyaffs2image doesn't just work out of the box because different NAND types and different ECC layouts etc need different binary layouts. Instead mkyaffs2image is intended as tweakware. You will need to tweak it to get the layout you need. -- Charles