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Subject: RE: FW: M-SYS Doc Replacements
From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
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Date: 11 Feb 2002 18:13:19 -0700
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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 17:58, Chris Fowler wrote:
> My problem is there is the kernel thread named 'msys/fla'  I can't seem to
> get the
> people at M-SYS to tell me what this thing is doing.  My DOC chip is *not*
> mounted.  In fact, I can rmmod
> the driver.  That shouldt ell you the flash is not in use.  But this thread
> keeps my load averages around 1.
> 
> If I 'rmmod doc' then my load averages drop to 0.06.  WWhat does this thread
> do to a flash
> that is not in use?

then use the MTD doc drivers instead, you can even use grub to boot the
thing