On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:01:10AM -0600, yogesh deshpande wrote:
> I am using Linkup L7205SDB for my project. I am writing a device driver to
> provide read and write opearaions on flash partition. This driver is compiled
> with kernel properly and works fine as far as openeing the flash device is
> concerned. But as there is no file system existing on this device I can not
> perform read and write opearionts or mount it to some point. There is no
> utility available for creating filesystem(mkfs or mke2fs).
Best thing to do is to use the MTD layer in Linux, rather than writing
your own flash driver. You can then use things like jffs or jffs2,
which are far superior to ext2 on flash devices.
ext2 is not really suitable for use on flash devices since it does not
give even wearing.
_____
|_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+-
| | Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---
| | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ / / |
| +-+-+ --- -+-
/ | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\
/ | | | --- |
+-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
_______________________________________________
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm
Please visit the above address for information on this list.
