NAND diskonchip driver broken with NFTL DOC 2000
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Feb 2 12:12:22 EST 2007
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:10 -0800, Michael Marineau wrote:
> I have been having a bit of an adventure trying to get a DiskOnChip
> 2000 (NFTL model) working properly with nandwrite/nanddump utilities
> and jffs2. With the current version in 2.6.20-rc6 nandwrite/nanddump
> can properly read and write the main data area but writes to the oob
> area didn't do anything and reads just got garbage. jffs2 was
> similar, generally working but could never find clearmarkes.
>
> If I use the generic nand_read/write_oob_std functions from
> nand_base.c instead of nand_read/write_syndrome then
> nandwrite/nanddump operates perfectly for both the data area and oob.
> Unfortunatly with those oob functions swapped jffs2 is unhappy,
> throwing ecc errors constantly. I didn't check if jffs2 was able to
> read the clearmarkers from oob.
Does Artem's patch to use MTD_OOB_AUTO fix this?
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