Re: DaVinci NAND writing utility release, was: RE: [RFC] Change ECC algorithm from userspace

Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-11-01T10:35:17Z

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Jon Povey <Jon.Povey@racelogic.co.uk> wrote:
> Adding davinci linux open source ML to CC as folk there might find this
> utility useful.
>
> Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Jon Povey
>> <Jon.Povey@racelogic.co.uk> wrote:
>>> linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org wrote:
>>> DM355 and DM365 has similar issues as the RBL expects a different
>>> OOB/ECC layout to Linux.
>>>
>>> What I have done is write a utility that calculates ECC and writes to
>>> the mtd device in RAW mode. So to rewrite the bootloader I take care
>>> of the ECC and layout at application level without changing the
>>> kernel.
>
>> Is your utility publicly available? It would be great if I can use it
>> as an starting point.
>
> Management have given the thumbs-up, this is now released under GPL v2
> at https://github.com/jonpovey/flashtool
>
> Supports DM355 and DM365 RBL layouts, ECC generation, UBI image writing,
> and various bad block / range handling.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --

Hi Jon, thanks for sharing your tool!

Today is holiday in Spain and I don't have proper hardware to test.
But tomorrow I will definitely give a try.

Thanks a lot and best regards,

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Javier Martínez Canillas
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