Problems with nftl (fwd)

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

The patch makes a little more sense in context. Resent with permission...

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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:17:40 +0200
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Problems with nftl
From: cemil@regio.net (Cemil Degirmenci)

Sorry that i mail directly to you, but the mailinglist refused my mail with 
the reason "unknown local part".

I have some Problems with nftl_format.
In Consolemodus there is no problem with it.
I can use nftl_format in less than 20 Seconds, fdisk it, and make 
a ext2 Filesystem on it.
But when i start my XFree, its very slow, and eats about 99% of CPU.
A nftl_format needs 10minutes under X, and takes a lot of CPU-capacity.
Moving my mouse is not possible during the process.
Here are some infos, i dont know if you need them:

The MTD-Version i use:
mtd-snapshot-20010716.tar.bz2

The way i patched my 2.4.6-Kernel:
sh patchin.sh /usr/src/linux

I have activated the follwing Options in Kernel:
- -Memory Technology Device (MTD) support 
- -Debugging 
- -MTD partitioning support 
- -Direct char device access to MTD devices
- -FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support
- -NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support
- -Write support for NFTL (BETA)

         Self-contained MTD device drivers
- -Test driver using RAM 
(4096) MTDRAM device size in KiB
(128) MTDRAM erase block size in KiB 
(0) SRAM Hexadecimal Absolute position or 0
<*>   M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000 and Millennium

The Next Thing:
What would be the best way of booting the chip? a patched lilo? Grub?
Is there an good howto for it?
I want to Install a complett Server on it using httpd or dhcp, whatever.

thanks,
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