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From: daniel@dmhome.net
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: raw nand on x86 - reference boards
Date: 29 Sep 2003 18:27:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030929102718.27650.qmail@mailshell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064829280.12791.3.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:54, David Woodhouse wrote:

> You can just use the DiskOnChip as raw NAND 

> -- look at 
> drivers/mtd/nand/diskonchip.c
Yep, i've seen that one, I completely forgot about it! Good idea, also
the boards I am working with all have a doc socket already.  

> Pick a bootloader to stick into flash with the BIOS. Add NAND flash and
> JFFS2 support, and make it can load and run a kernel from the JFFS2 file
> system (or even a separate raw partition of the flash).
Originally I was thinking about using etherboot as a base to start from,
add support for booting images from a raw flash partition. (they already
have this for booting from disk). 


Thanks a lot,

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-29  9:16 raw nand on x86 - reference boards Daniel Toussaint
2003-09-29  9:22 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-29  9:27   ` Jasmine Strong
2003-09-29  9:37   ` daniel
2003-09-29  9:54     ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-29 10:27       ` daniel [this message]
2003-09-29 10:36         ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-29 12:51 ` David Goodenough
2003-09-30  1:42   ` Daniel Toussaint
2003-09-30 10:31 ` Stephen Brown

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