[Ltib] Re: Reg ltib

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Neha,

I'm not sure about the OOB data question, maybe others on this list or
even on the MTD mailing list know.

As far as your other options go, there are techniques for combining the
kernel and rootfs into a single image (it's a general technique that you
can find on various mailing list).  However in my opinion for most cases
you get more flexibility by having the kernel and rootfs in separate
Flash partitions.

Regards, Stuart

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:25 +0530, Makhija, Neha (IE10) wrote:
> Hi Stuart
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> I am the member of the ltib mailing list. I have one doubt. I am
> having one kernel image which will take the file system through NFS
> and will download it on the board’s NAND flash. So I am having two
> images one is kernel image and second one is root file system image
> which is .jffs2. Now the requirement is that only one single image
> should be there to program the empty flash, ie I need to concatenate
> the two images. We need this because the final burning of the NAND
> flash will be done by the 3rd party vendor, so they want only image
> for the first time. To burn NAND flash, peedi programmer will be used.
> Peedi programmer takes care of the bad blocks in the NAND flash. What
> I want to know is, If I will concatenate the two images with the help
> of batch command will it work? I mean will it update the OOB table of
> the bad block as done by linux kernel while loading root file system
> image (JFFS2 image)?
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> Basically I am not able to check where exactly the OOB table is
> getting updated for the root file system? Or Is there a way to
> generate the kernel and Root file system image altogether? 
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
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> Neha
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