From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, yaffs@toby-churchill.org
Subject: Re: Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading
Date: 24 Sep 2002 00:53:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032854017.13283.3.camel@russ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020924044434.GA23917@buici.com>
> Some people think that writing a new kernel would be easy. %^)
>
> The trouble is coming up with a convenient method. LILO stores a list
> of blocks. GRUB reads filesystems. GRUB is better in the long run,
> but harder to implement.
I've written a cramfs reader for grub, to use on the DOC, and grub works
great on a DOC. Although the grub code is a bit ugly, and there are a
few gotchas, writing a module is pretty straight forward. That being
said, writing a module to load files of a journaled fs (jffs2), is a bit
more time consuming, but as I understand yaffs is greatly optimized
towards NAND (as apposed to NOR) flash layout and lends itself to easy
reading (same sized blocks, no compression iirc).
If I were you, I'd use grub.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 9:20 jffs2 and Doc 2000 eylon eyal
2002-09-24 0:03 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 3:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 3:58 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Charles Manning
2002-09-24 4:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 7:53 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2002-09-24 16:53 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 16:59 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 17:14 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:21 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-09-24 17:30 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 18:33 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:44 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-09-24 18:37 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 18:47 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 20:22 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 20:41 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 7:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 16:55 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 18:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 20:53 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 22:46 ` Christian Gan
2002-09-25 7:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-25 7:09 Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Srinivasan.Ramasubramaniam
2002-09-25 8:38 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-25 13:34 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-25 16:34 ` Russ Dill
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