Factory programming of NAND and Dataflash

[Aras Vaichas <arasv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

can someone please recommend some products for factory programming the 
NAND (JFFS2) and Dataflash on an AT91RM9200 based board?

I found this device: http://www.ronetix.at/peedi.html which claims to do 
everything that we require. I was wondering if there were any other 
off-the-shelf solutions?

-- background --

Our current method is based on the original Atmel recommendation for 
initialising the system:

* AT91RM9200 BootROM requests romboot via serial port
* romboot -> serial port ->  -> Dataflash
* U-Boot -> serial port -> Dataflash
* U-Boot starts up and TFTP requests a boot image
* kernel+initrd -> ethernet -> SDRAM
* U-Boot boots the kernel which mounts the initrd
* kernel installs the filing system using JFFS2 on to the NAND

Then one day I wrapped this all up with Bash and Expect scripts, and it 
became the de-facto factory installation method ...

I made the whole thing into a Live CD (using the Linux Live scripts) 
which can be booted on any PC. It's a good solution, but really painful 
to maintain and upgrade. So I'd prefer something that just writes 
directly to the NAND and Dataflash.

Aras

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