From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Strange MTD problem (ARM)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:57:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr6rp3fn.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.u4j8accoyqa4qb@jap-lappis.nevion.com> (Joachim Pihl's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:52:50 +0100")
>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Pihl <jpihl@nevion.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I take it that this is with busybox cp and not coreutils? You might have
>> better luck asking on the busybox list.
Joachim> This is with busybox, yes. Will repost to the busybox list and see
Joachim> what comes up.
Ok.
>> Why not simply use cat instead?
Joachim> Actually, I have never thought of that, but will that start from the
Joachim> beginning of the MTD block?
Yes it will.
Joachim> We have used "cp mtdblock2 /dev/mtdblock2" for 7 years in the
Joachim> product, this is the first time I have seen it fail.
OK. FYI, busybox nowadays also has the flashcp applet from mtd-utils
which does the right thing.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 8:36 [Buildroot] Strange MTD problem (ARM) Joachim Pihl
2009-12-07 8:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-12-07 8:52 ` Joachim Pihl
2009-12-07 8:57 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2009-12-07 9:17 ` Joachim Pihl
2009-12-07 9:28 ` Peter Korsgaard
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