From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 209-184-180-125.faxtell.net ([209.184.180.125] helo=eventlog.faxtell.net) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 14zJNt-0006Vy-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:31:41 +0100 Message-ID: <003b01c0dc83$4f6ace00$88b4b8d1@ShuhIII> Reply-To: "Shuh C. Chang" From: schang@3inet.com (Shuh C Chang) To: "Felix Radensky" , "Linux-mtd" References: <3AFFE80B.DCE1B139@allot.com> Subject: Re: DOC problems on PowerPC Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:36:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > All I had to do is to run "eraseall /dev/mtd0", Is "eraseall" equivalent to the DOS utility "docpmap /e" in functionality? Anyone who can shed some light? Shuh Chang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felix Radensky" To: "Linux-mtd" Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:13 AM Subject: DOC problems on PowerPC > Hi, all > > I was able to solve the DOC problems on PowerPC I've reported yesterday. > > All I had to do is to run "eraseall /dev/mtd0", then run "nftl_format > /dev/mtd0" > and then create partitions with fdisk. > > Can someone please explain me the difference between eraseall and > nftl_format. > HOWTO says nothing about it. > > By the way, the latest mtd code would not compile, at least on my 2.4.2 > kernel > unless you add #include to chipreg.c. This is because of > > a call to request_module() in do_map_probe(), which IMHO should be > under #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD, and not #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES. > > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ >