From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from [209.167.190.89] (helo=ampr.harc.on.ca) by imladris.mvhi.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 112Uoh-0006u4-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:11:27 +0100 From: "D. Jeff Dionne / VE3DJF" Message-Id: <199907090709.HAA04138@ampr.harc.on.ca> Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: from Jason Gunthorpe at "Jul 8, 1999 4:53:49 pm" To: jgg@deltatee.com (Jason Gunthorpe) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:09:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mtd@infradead.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@imladris.demon.co.uk List-ID: > > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > Anyway, having come over from the uClinux project, I am very > > > interested in anything you may have. I can also lend a hand. We've > > > had XIP from FLASH now for about a year, but are stuck using ROMfs > > > (which as you know is read only). > > Can you fire over your patch to ROMfs to make it do this? The 2.2.10 > kernel version doesn't. Unfortunately, in it's current form it will not be of any use to you I suspect. It's for 2.0.37, and is tied up with another meg of patch. It touches lots of stuff, and it needs cleaning :-( We're also very 68k right now, so Linux/Intel would be some work. You'll need fully position independant code to start with... Does -fpic go far enough on Intel? You'll need to hack the ELF loader, we run a simple (low overhead) binary format. > > > We don't have XIP. We _do_ have FTL, and are working on FFS2. The situation is > > something like this: > > I have read only ffs2 running, but the hair brained compression scheme is > giving me pain :< > > On lwn there was a pointer to a Hard Hat linux which also claimed flash > support with a flash file system, anyone know more about those guys? > > Jason > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@imladris.demon.co.uk