SmartMedia FAT

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:26 +0000, Simon Haynes wrote:
> I have been looking at the OOB data format for SSFDC and it seems I will have 
> to create and process my own OOB data as I can not see how the NAND/MTD layer 
> will work with this. 

Yes, that's expected. NFTL and JFFS2 do this too.

> When we started this project there seemed to be a fixed NAND OOB format. Now 
> the NAND OOB format is selectable. I have noticed in a couple of kernel 
> distributions that the JFFS2 code does not seem to be aware of this and just 
> calls pain mtd->read. I guess this would mean no ecc for JFFS2 on NAND unless 
> it was done automatically by the hardware. This was the case for latest 
> stable kernel, 2.4.22 downloaded from kernel.org today. 
> 
> Is this really the case ?

The JFFS2 in the 2.4 kernel doesn't support NAND. The code in CVS does.


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