[U-Boot] Writing a YAFFS image to NAND

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

Peter Barada wrote:
> Is there support in the 2009.03 version of U-boot to allow writing a
> YAFFS image created by mkyaffs2image to NAND, including the meta-data in
> the OOB?

Not that I know of (unless something in cmd_yaffs2.c can do it).

> Looking over the nand write/read commands, they look to ignore the OOB
> data interleaved in the image (i.e. 2048+16 bytes per page for
> large-block NAND).  I did see a patch from fmandarino on the list, but
> that doesn't look to be in the 2009.03 codebase.

That was several years ago; if someone wants to submit a proper patch 
against current u-boot (without the pre-2.6.18 support, or at least with 
the newer format being the default), I'll apply it.  Better yet would be 
a more general mechanism whereby the user specifies how many OOB bytes 
are interleaved in the supplied image, without any specific knowledege 
of yaffs.

-Scott