From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Adam Yergovich <ayergo@jkmicro.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Access entire device with mtdblock0
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:51:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090110015150.GH1972@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4967F2B2.4060405@jkmicro.com>
Adam Yergovich wrote:
> There was a grand feature in the 2.4 flavor of MTD that i used wherein
> mtdblock0 was assigned the entirety of the device. This made updating
> the flash image very easy.
>
> I've since started messing around with 2.6 flavors, and while i have a
> working map that gives the partitions i can no longer access the entire
> device. I've tried a few things without success to get it to work.
>
> Any recommendations on a simple way to create a partition using the
> entirety of flash?
Hey, I use that feature with 2.4 too, and I'm looking at porting a
device to 2.6. I'll be interested in the answer.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-10 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-10 0:58 Access entire device with mtdblock0 Adam Yergovich
2009-01-10 1:51 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-01-13 23:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-14 9:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-14 10:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-14 11:09 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-14 11:25 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2009-01-14 11:50 ` Wolfgang Wegner
2009-01-14 17:06 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-01-31 0:08 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-02-05 22:56 ` hartleys
2009-02-06 0:32 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-02-09 13:15 ` Peter Korsgaard
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