From: Frederick Lefebvre <flefebvre@irg.ca>
To: Pieter Grimmerink <mailinglists@grimmerink.nl>
Cc: linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Current status JFFS2 on DOC
Date: 08 May 2002 14:08:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020881319.14408.52.camel@zeus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MPBBIIEFELAEABNCNHMMGELBDAAA.mailinglists@grimmerink.nl>
I am working, among many, many other things on getting JFFS2 on a DOC
2000. I do not know when it will be ready since I've got so much work
right now.
--
Frederick Lefebvre
flefebvre@irg.ca
Software Developer,
(418)523-4474 #242
Infomedia Research Group (IRG)
Quebec, Canada
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 12:37, Pieter Grimmerink wrote:
> I was quite happy to read about the recent efforts to support
> JFFS2 on NAND devices.
>
> Currently I'm about to make a decision on which flash device
> to use for a new embedded device.
> Looking at prices NAND flash looks like the best option,
> especially if we can use JFFS2 on it.
>
> >From a design point of view, DiscOnChip looks nice with
> it's feature to boot from it.
> SmartMedia looks a bit cheaper, but that would require
> a separate NOR device, large enough to hold a compressed
> kernel, total price going up above the DOC prices again.
>
> However, all that I have found so far in mailinglists and
> howto's, indicates that JFFS2 on smartmedia has been further
> investigated then JFFS2 on DOC.
> But as far as I understand, there should be no physical limitation
> on a DOC to eventually host a JFFS2 filesystem.
>
> Is this all true, and has someone managed to get a working
> JFFS2 filesystem on a DOC?
> and finaly, what are the chances of acutally booting into a
> JFFS2 root filesystem directly from a DOC?
> (I heard something about a modified GNU GRUB to replace the DOC
> firmware)
>
> This would eventually all have to run on a non-x86 processor.
>
> Is this a workable solution already, or would I have to go for
> more 'conventional' hardware to be safe?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pieter Grimmerink
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-08 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-08 16:37 Current status JFFS2 on DOC Pieter Grimmerink
2002-05-08 18:08 ` Frederick Lefebvre [this message]
2002-05-08 21:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-05-08 18:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-05-08 22:52 ` Pieter Grimmerink
2002-05-09 7:11 ` David Woodhouse
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