Rakhi Rathi wrote:
> Nick, can you please guide me for below listed things.
>
> Looking forward for positive response from you.....
>
I was out yesterday till late so I only got your mail this morning.
> Thanks,
> Rakhi
>
> On 10/19/05, *Rakhi Rathi* <rakhi5511@gmail.com
> <mailto:rakhi5511@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Nick.
>
> I want to write mkyaffsimage and mkyaffs utility for creating YAFFS2
> root fs and formatting / programming big/small blocks. I am
> clueless how can I do that? Could you please give me some guidance
> for the same? I will share the code on YAFFS website too.
>
It has been a fair while since I looked at mkyaffsimage so I will leave
it to others on the list to help there. In principle it is simple, you
chunk the world up into pages and oob info and write that to a file. You
should probably read the mkyaffsimage source and be at least slightly
familiar with it first and then ask some specific questions.
> I want to do this for my own interest and to take first step to
> contribute to open source community.
>
This is best done on the yaffs list so others can contribute and make
suggestions. I know it is on the todo list for several people and it may
already have been done. I have cc'd this to the list for comments.
> Also, could please help me with tar of bootldr35 code.
>
Use wget
http://husaberg.toby-churchill.com/releases/development/bootldr/bootldr35
I can tar it up if wget is not helpful to you.
Nick
> --Rakhi
>
>
>
> On 10/18/05, *Nick Bane* < nick@cecomputing.co.uk
> <mailto:nick@cecomputing.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> Rakhi Rathi wrote:
>> Thanks Nick.
>>
>> I need some more inputs:
>>
>> NAND flash are shipped with bad blocks; what will happen if
> you try to
>> load the bootldr using JTAG in block which is bad initially?
>>
> Well, we jtag out bootldr into a small bit of NOR and avoid the
> question
> entirely.
> However, reading/writing nand is just a convoluted form of
> reading/writing NOR so in principle it shouldn't be a problem.
>
> A bigger problem is booting out of NAND. Have you solved that
> one yet?
> Only the 2k parts do that and one has to hope that the first
> page won't
> become bad with time ...
>
>
>> Once again thanks for all your help.
>>
> Happy to do so.
>
> Nick
>
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