From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
Cc: "falls huang" <falls.huang@gmail.com>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd support for large NAND
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:55:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016195521.GN583@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710170847.46250.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
On Wed, 17 October 2007 08:47:46 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007 23:47:27 Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 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
>
> Plus modifying mtd to handle partitions greater than the u32 size limit.
I believe Falls Huang wanted to do just that and needed a test setup.
But I may be wrong.
Jörn
--
Linux [...] existed just for discussion between people who wanted
to show off how geeky they were.
-- Rob Enderle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 20:03 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
2007-10-16 19:47 ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16 19:55 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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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