Re: Problem writing to NOR flash

Dmitry A. Fedorov
2004-07-26T14:07:38Z

On 26 Jul 2004, Andy Hawkins wrote:

> We're using a 2.4.20 derived kernel, and a while back updated to a
> recent MTD snapshot

The same for 2.4.26.

> To see if this problem has now been fixed, I have just downloaded the
> latest snapshot to try. However, I can no longer get this to compile.
> After changing some Makefiles, I have now found that the new code uses
> 'kvec' in place of 'iovec'. Is this a 2.6 feature?
>
> If so, are there any plans to make the current MTD code work with 2.4?

Porting of current MTD snapshot that oriented to 2.6 kernel is not
simple task. I did it for my hardware and have some patch set.

> What would people recommend we do in order to get working MTD support
> for the chips on our board for a 2.4 kernel?

Ask me for these patches, extend it for your hardware set and try to
push it back to MTD source.