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Author: David Goodenough
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To: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Problem with Yaffs on Routerboard RB112 and kernel 2.6.19
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Andrea Conti wrote:
> > The patched 2.6.19.2 kernel can not read it, gives errors
>
> My 550-... patch is not fully compatible with the old yaffs1 layout,
> because of the block status encoding. If mikrotik's 2.6 is using the old
> layout, this is the expected behavior.

Thanks to Ian McDonnell we now have a version of Yaffs which seems to
work both read and write in compatibility mode. I will be passing it
to Florian shortly for posting in the OpenWrt svn.

David
>
> > I am suspecting that the RouterBoard tftp flash uses a differnet nand
> > format compared to the RootBoot loader format. A tcpdump may or may not
> > reveal some of the magic involved on this ...
>
> I'm not sure about what you mean here, but this has nothing to do with
> networking stuff AFAIK.
>
> Andrea
>
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