From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Siders, Keith" <keith_siders@toshibatv.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: FTL and Endianity
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 10:32:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1688.994671164@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7DF7BFDC95ECD411B4010090278A44CA0A3B8E@ATVX>
keith_siders@toshibatv.com said:
> So since I'm using big-endian MIPS, does this effect JFFS2? That is,
> does FTL stand for Flash Translation Layer, or some such thing?
JFFS2 is host-endian. It shouldn't affect you at all. You don't need to use
FTL, JFFS works directly on the flash.
If you're making your JFFS2 filesystem images on a little-endian box for
use on your target, make sure you use the appropriate arguments to
mkfs.jffs2 to make it do the byteswapping.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-06 12:52 FTL and Endianity Siders, Keith
2001-07-09 9:32 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-07-09 12:56 ` nftl_format/nftlmount problems Felix Radensky
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2001-07-06 18:25 FTL and Endianity Alexandr Andreev
2001-07-06 10:30 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-06 19:26 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-07-06 11:35 ` David Woodhouse
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