SMC+vivi

SMC+vivi

[Selmeci, Tamas]

Hello!

Is anybody here who has some experience with SmartMedia Cards and Vivi?
(Especially on S3C2410?)

My boot device is a 64MB SMC. This is partitioned with Vivi, which is
also the boot manager. These are the partitions:
1. Vivi program code
2. Vivi data
3. Kernel image
4. Root FS

Data is downloaded to the card via the developer board, using it's
specific download tool. 

Everything is OK until the point where I want to mount root fs. It seems
that the SMC is partitioned in the standard MTD-manner, but currently I
can't make my kernel mount the rootfs.I don't know if I have to enable
NFTL and FTL in 2.6.15-5 kernel in order to be able to mount the root fs
located on SMC. Currently they're enabled, but during the boot, the
kernel displays no message at all about MTD devices - I think it should,
because SMC is an MTD too... That's why the given kernel root parameters
(root=/dev/mtdblock/3, mtdblock3) are all useless.

What should I do? Does anybody has any idea?

Regards:
--
Tamas Selmeci
Siemens PSE HU
Tel.:    +36-1-471-3861
Email:   tamas.selmeci@siemens.com
Address: H-1143 Budapest, Gizella ut 51-59 

Re: SMC+vivi

[Ben Dooks]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Selmeci, Tamas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is anybody here who has some experience with SmartMedia Cards and Vivi?
> (Especially on S3C2410?)

Do you have the following:

1) The S3C2410 NAND driver compiled into the kernel
2) Your board code adding the platform device for the NAND

> My boot device is a 64MB SMC. This is partitioned with Vivi, which is
> also the boot manager. These are the partitions:
> 1. Vivi program code
> 2. Vivi data
> 3. Kernel image
> 4. Root FS
> 
> Data is downloaded to the card via the developer board, using it's
> specific download tool. 
> 
> Everything is OK until the point where I want to mount root fs. It seems
> that the SMC is partitioned in the standard MTD-manner, but currently I
> can't make my kernel mount the rootfs.I don't know if I have to enable
> NFTL and FTL in 2.6.15-5 kernel in order to be able to mount the root fs
> located on SMC. Currently they're enabled, but during the boot, the
> kernel displays no message at all about MTD devices - I think it should,
> because SMC is an MTD too... That's why the given kernel root parameters
> (root=/dev/mtdblock/3, mtdblock3) are all useless.
> 
> What should I do? Does anybody has any idea?
> 
> Regards:
> --
> Tamas Selmeci
> Siemens PSE HU
> Tel.:    +36-1-471-3861
> Email:   tamas.selmeci@siemens.com
> Address: H-1143 Budapest, Gizella ut 51-59 
> 
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