[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWRT mtd tooling vs mtd-utils

[zajec5@xxxxxxxxx (Rafał Miłecki)]

On Fri, 18 May 2018 at 13:16, David Oberhollenzer <goliath at sigma-star.at> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification!
>
> Just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason why OpenWRT uses its
> own formatting utility here instead of using the tools from mtd-utils?

It's probably because it includes some features that upstream
developers/maintaners would probably find too hacky.

In OpenWrt's mtd there is support for some magic deadc0de marker,
appending JFFS2 data, handling vendor specific formats like TRX and
Seama.