Re: ubi-utils: Moving mkpfi, pfiflash, ... to old-tools

Josh Boyer
2008-02-19T12:30:32Z

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:47:36 +0100
Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:53 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > I also have a patch for
> > bin2nand/nand2bin since they are hard coded to use the SmartMedia ECC
> > byte ordering.
>
> I added fixes to be more flexible in the fashion the tools place the
> OOB-ECC bytes already some time ago. Please have a look if those changes
> already do what you had in mind here.

No, they don't. That was a major part of what I needed (so thank you!),
but ecc layout isn't the same as ecc byte ordering. I'll post a patch
soonish.

> Yesterday I sent a patch to move the location of bin2nand and nand2bin
> since those tools are not UBI related. If David accepts the change, you
> will find them at a different spot (but anyhow, you were on CC list for
> that patch).

Yes I saw that. We don't need to wait for David. I'll look it over
today.

josh