From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Nick Bane <nick@cecomputing.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, yaffs@toby-churchill.org
Subject: Re: Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:55:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020924165521.GB2533@buici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007801c2639b$3a4bc4c0$0100a8c0@p450>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:23:06AM +0100, Nick Bane wrote:
> The modifications I made to bootldr (CRL bootloader as used in iPaq
> handhelds) were trivial after mkysffsimage was fixed (ask for a copy as the
> CVS one is still badly broken).
>
> Bootldr copies the data 512+16 bytes at a time into non-broken NAND. The
> kernel is then booted with prior knowledge as to where to find the YAFFS
> data and all is ok.
What is non-broken NAND?
> How this works with DOC I am unclear as I had noticed a while back that
> there was hardware assisted ECC. This might get in the way of YAFFS ECC but
> maybe this can be circumvented.
As far as I can tell, the hardware ECC just makes the DOC faster.
Also, I think that Microsys has released information about how to use
the hardware ECC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 9:20 jffs2 and Doc 2000 eylon eyal
2002-09-24 0:03 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 3:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 3:58 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Charles Manning
2002-09-24 4:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 7:53 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 16:53 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 16:59 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 17:14 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:21 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-09-24 17:30 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 18:33 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:44 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-09-24 18:37 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 18:47 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 20:22 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 20:41 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 7:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 16:55 ` Marc Singer [this message]
2002-09-24 18:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 20:53 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 22:46 ` Christian Gan
2002-09-25 7:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-25 7:09 Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Srinivasan.Ramasubramaniam
2002-09-25 8:38 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-25 13:34 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-25 16:34 ` Russ Dill
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