From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de ([195.145.119.39] helo=orvill.bhp.t-online.de) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 18GMOf-0000cX-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:47:45 +0000 Received: from ylva.bhp.t-online.de (ylva.ada.t-online.de [172.30.8.40]) by smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with SMTP id <0H65002G36PKNS@smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:17:45 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:15:45 +0100 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Nand flash and blob In-reply-to: <017c01c294a2$907fe9b0$6401000a@zorak> To: anidea@earthlink.net, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-to: tglx@linutronix.de Message-id: <200211251815.45629.tglx@linutronix.de> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <017c01c294a2$907fe9b0$6401000a@zorak> 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: On Monday 25 November 2002 17:49, Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a arm based design where I have a 16MB Sandisk/Samsung > nand flash device. I think I have the Linux side settled buy using the > standard MTD driver. > > I'm using BLOB and I'd like to know what people are doing to get the > system loaded. I have zImage, params, and ramdisk that I want to use my > NAND device to store these blocks. You will have to extend block to handle NAND. You could use the nand driver code from mtd-cvs for this. Be aware that you have to handle bad blocks, as your chip can have factory marked bad blocks. On my system I have 1MB bootflash, where the bootloader, zImage and params are stored and my root filesystem is on a JFFS2 partition on NAND. Thats the fastest way to go along I think. -- Thomas ____________________________________________________ linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux http://www.linutronix.de mail: tglx@linutronix.de