From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12l6De-0003rQ-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:33:50 +0100 Received: from colo.asti-usa.com ([205.252.89.99] ident=root) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12l6Dd-0003rK-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:33:49 +0100 Received: from zentropix.com ([195.166.67.91]) by colo.asti-usa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA11239 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 04:43:25 -0400 Message-ID: <39094DF8.7BD43B12@zentropix.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:38:16 +0100 From: Trevor Woolven MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MTD Subject: TODO List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@imladris.demon.co.uk List-ID: Hi Everyone, Dave Woodhouse and I had a meeting yesterday and we came up with the following list of things that need doing to/fixing in the MTD code: 1 Write Support a ECC b Bad block handling (static) c Bad block detection and handling (dynamic) d Timing constraints e Asynchronous writes 2 FTL fix 3 Support for NOR flash/PCMCIA 4 Support utilities a Formatting b Bad sector/block detection c Consistency checking 5 Documentation a Architectural description b User Guide and API listing c ... 6 DOC Millenium support 7 Fix the character device memory copy to/from user space 8 JFFS/FFS2 support 9 GRUB a Filesystem support (NFTL, JFFS etc) b MTD support 10 Execute-in-place We attempted to prioritize them as we saw fit with the following two goals: a) submission to the main-stream linux kernel (2.4/2.5) b) production of a fully GPL alternative to what M-Systems offer Since Dave's still officially on holiday I agreed to post this to the list. We're after your opinions and suggestions regarding the TODO list and the two immediate goals for this work. We're also after volunteers to take on various parts of the development. Please feel free to comment upon the above. Thanks, Trevor. -- Zentropix Inc - a Lineo company Tel: +44 (0)1273 234 647 Fax: +44 (0)1273 704 482 Visit http://www.zentropix.com/ for Real Time Linux Tools Visit http://www.realtimelinux.org/ for Real Time Linux Information To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org