[Yaffs] R: yaffs2 flash image handling tools

Charles, we already have a tool that execute the first step. The problem is
only the mounting of the image.
Regards
Luca

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz
>Data: 03/11/2011 0.48
>A: <yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk>
>Ogg: [Yaffs] yaffs2 flash image handling tools
>
>Hi folks
>
>One piece of the yaffs2 puzzle that has been missing forever is some means
of
>extracting/loading images from/to flash and being able to manipiulate these
>on the host.
>
>This is generally thwarted by different flash drivers having different ecc
>layouts.
>
>What I have in development is something called ymemtool which is intended to
>do all the nandread/nandwrite functions with a yaffs slant.
>
>In the fullness of time, ymemtool will be able to do all of:
>
>1) Tell us info about the flash including the oob layout.
>2) Read the contents of flash, apply the oob layout and so write an image
file
>in a consistent format.
>3) Read a consistently formatted image file, apply the oob layout and write
to
>nand.
>
>At this stage, (1) works and (2,3) are work in progress.
>
>Then a host-side program will be able to read/write the consistently
formatted
>image file.
>
>-- Charles
>
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