RE: File systems and Disk on Chips

From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
To: <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: File systems and Disk on Chips
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 13:41:58 -0400	[thread overview]
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> Subject: Re: File systems and Disk on Chips
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> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:00, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > I have here a 2 Megabyte Disk on Chip device, plugged into a
carrier
> > board. It is now wearing the GRUB based firmware. How when I bring
up
> > my system, the DOC device complains about the lack of a file
system.
> > Any ideas as to how I could put a file system on this device?
> > Preferably as a native Linux format.
> 
> Basically, you put a block filesystem on top of NFTL that grub
> understands. Grub does not at this point understand YAFFS or JFFS2
on
> NAND flash, but I'm sure there a lot of people who are looking for
that
> and it wouldn't be difficult to do.
> 
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> Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
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Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Okay that makes more sense. But now how do I go about creating the "
block filesystem on top of NFTL", that I need to use? 

For example, I've gotten with my test image, as far as creating a
floppy disk image, and booting that, inside the Bochs emulator. It
worked, the test kernel launched, and told me that the kernel did what
it was supposed to do. 

My other problem, is that I still can not get the utilities inside
that directory to properly compile, they always break when trying to
create the ones that manage the JFFS2 stuff. I am hoping that the
snapshot from yesterday has been fixed, but I don't know.
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