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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: zeusj@firstlinux.net
Cc: all in MTD mailinglist <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Quesion on copying to mtdblock0
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:17:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17838.1021490237@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020515184359.301BD36F9@sitemail.everyone.net>

zeusj@firstlinux.net said:
> 1.Is the command"cp jffs.img /dev/mtdblock0" after booting result as
> same as to burn the jffs.img into flash chip(which is presented as
> mtdblock0)with kernel Image? 

Yes.

> 2.Is "cp somefile /dev/mtd0" as same as "cp somefile /dev/mtdblock0"? 

No. The block device erases it first.

> 3.by the way , May I know the reason that you dont register the master
>  MTD like you register the MTD partition?(just like hda and hda1,2,3...) 

Just a historical accident; the current partitioning code is just a hack.


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dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15 18:43 Quesion on copying to mtdblock0 Jim Zeus
2002-05-15 19:17 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2002-05-16  9:05 Jim Zeus
2002-05-16 12:24 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-17  6:58 Jim Zeus
2002-05-17  7:17 ` David Woodhouse
     [not found] <20020517073950.53BD02757@sitemail.everyone.net>
2002-05-17  7:51 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-17  8:34 Jim Zeus
2002-05-17  8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-17  8:46 Jim Zeus
2002-05-17  8:57 ` David Woodhouse

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