On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:50 -0800, Rajiv Dhingra wrote:
> We were running Linux 2.4.20, Yaffs, and using a NAND
> device with 512 byte pages. Everything was working fine.
> Then the hardware guys replaced the 512 byte page NAND
> device with a 2k page NAND device.
> So, I now have to hack yaffs to support a 2k page size,
> or start using Yaffs2. What would the recommendation
> of this newsgroup be? Would it be easy enough for me
> to hack yaffs to start supporting the bigger page size?
> Is yaffs2 stable enough and does it run with the 2.4.20
> kernel, making it a better option.
Be prepared to upgrade your kernel. The MTD NAND layer which has the
support for 2k chips is definitely not portable to 2.4.20.
Read
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/#kernelversions
tglx
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