RE: JFFS2 on 8MB Flash-Chip conneted to MPC850 works extremly slo w:(

Jonas Holmberg
2001-09-05T09:20:32Z

> What _are_ you using? If you're going through the MTD device
> for the flash
> chip, calling its read() method, that still ought to work.
>
> If you're trying to just read the compressed data in the
> flash chip directly
> from the memory location you happen to know it's mapped at,
> you've just
> demonstrated why XIP on a writable chips is such a pain :)

The latter i'm afraid... but I'm working on using jffs2 instead of cramfs.
Would you recommend a read-only (mount -o ro) jffs2 root partition as a replacement for a cramfs root partition?

/Jonas