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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: falls huang <falls.huang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd support for large NAND
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:47:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016104727.GH583@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49eab5c80710120136m557b0df1ye3bd4e04d345d222@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 12 October 2007 16:36:09 +0800, falls huang wrote:
> 
>   How can I simulate a large nandflash(>4G) in linux PC ? I want to
> take a look at it, but I don't have any develop-board that has 4G

Something like this would work:

$ truncate 5GiB foo
$ qemu -s -no-kqemu -hda rootfs -hdb foo -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage \
       -append "ro root=/dev/hda block2mtd.block2mtd=/dev/hdb"

Instead of truncate you can also use dd:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1 seek=5368709119

Jörn

-- 
When you close your hand, you own nothing. When you open it up, you
own the whole world.
-- Li Mu Bai in Tiger & Dragon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10 20:11 mtd support for large NAND Charles Manning
2007-10-11  7:22 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-10-12  8:36   ` falls huang
2007-10-16  0:27     ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16  7:27       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-10-16 10:47     ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-10-16 19:47       ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16 19:55         ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-16 20:12           ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16 20:42             ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-16 21:16               ` Charles Manning

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