Hi!
Also, keep in mind that NAND Flashes are not error free and that they
are at random places. Using dd (or other, OOB supported util) to preload
an image on other NAND flash than it was dumped from is risky. Image
might contain valid, live blocks where NAND has faults.
regards,
Robbie
David Wuertele wrote:
>Charles> I think this is falling down on the "dd" commands. AFAIK,
>Charles> "dd" will be ignoring the OOB stuff which is required by
>Charles> YAFFS. Go look in the mtd tools, I think there are some nand
>Charles> specific tools like damddump or some such that will also
>Charles> extract the OOB info.
>
>So are you saying that I won't be able to preload a YAFFS filesystem
>into my NAND flash unless my programmer can write OOB info???
>
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