Reduce boot time with jffs2 and CM-X255

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:17 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> Admittedly, NAND 
> is faster than NOR, but then you've got quite a lot of empty flash too 
> (250 MB).

Just do not include empty eraseblocks to the image.

> I don't know what the solution is - one idea is that a program like 
> nandwrite could be instructed to write cleanmarkers to the OOB of unused 
> parts of a partition. Currently there is no support for this but it could 
> be added.

nandwrite -o ?

> 
> Hm, sidetracking here a bit, I'm thinking a general erase + write image 
> utility for NAND flash would be useful, given that bad block management 
> gets a bit hairy when you write to NAND and the write fails - should the 
> block be re-erased (not really part of a nand writing tool's job) and 
> retried, or just marked as bad (because most likely the block had recently 
> been erased by an erasing tool)? Having erase+write in the same tool would 
> make it easier for the tool to manage this, and it could also write jffs2 
> cleanmarkers to the oob as part of the whole procedure.

I would recommend to improve/re-work/upgrade nandwrite instead of a new
tool.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)