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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Mike Voytovich <mvoytovich@coactive.com>
Cc: Steve Kranz <skranz@ridgerun.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: MTD/mtdblock.c uclinux 2.0.38?
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:16:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18526.995436999@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7118259C3044D311942700508B2CA5BB7412DE@balance.coactive.com>

mvoytovich@coactive.com said:
> One big issue is that JFFS2 seems to rely on the dirent cache, which
> isn't present in the 2.0.x kernel.  So, I suppose that would have to
> be backported from 2.2.x (if that's even a reasonable task).  

Wouldn't it be easier to forward-port uCLinux to 2.4? Didn't someone 
already do that, in fact?

> I don't know what other kernel dependencies (besides dirent cache)
> there are for JFFS2...  I wonder if anyone has been successful in
> getting JFFS2 working with 2.0.x??  Any feedback would be
> appreciated...

JFFS1 will be easier. JFFS2 is possible but may be a lot of work. The dcache
thing should be the biggest problem - and that's possible to work around. I 
wouldn't backport the whole of the dcache thing to 2.0 - that would involve 
completely rewriting the VFS. Just provide internally to the JFFS2 code 
sufficient dcache stuff for it to work. Pretend dentries are JFFS2-internal 
data structures. 

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-18  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-17 23:02 MTD/mtdblock.c uclinux 2.0.38? Mike Voytovich
2001-07-18  6:16 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-18  6:50 Mike Voytovich
2001-07-16 23:00 Mike Voytovich
2001-07-17  7:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-09 13:42 Steve Kranz
2001-07-11  9:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-11 19:30   ` Steve Kranz
2001-07-11 20:36     ` Herman Oosthuysen
2001-07-11 22:28     ` David Woodhouse

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