Thomas> OOB info is part of the filesystem.
If it is, the designer made a boo-boo! It isn't called "out-of-band"
for nothing!
Thomas> ECC is part of error correction in the NAND layer. How should
Thomas> this work without?
1. ECC is optional in the NAND layer
2. ECC should be a component of the NAND driver, not of the
filesystem.
Thomas> nandwrite from MTD/utils programs images with OOB info, ECC
Thomas> and is bad block aware.
But I need to pre-load my flash with a programmer. This is for the
purposes of mass production, and there's no way to do it on a machine
already running linux. How am I going to get my YAFFS partition onto
the flash?
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