From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.allot.com ([199.203.223.202] helo=exg.allot.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15F8wk-0007NM-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:37:06 +0100 Message-ID: <3B398202.CC5B6125@allot.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:49:39 +0300 From: Felix Radensky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Evans CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Block device as MTD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Simon Evans wrote: > I have checked this into CVS now. The following files are affected: > > drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c - the driver itself > drivers/mtd/devices/Config.in > drivers/mtd/devices/Makefile > patches/Configure.help > > Please consider this alpha software. It uses raw/io to the disk (not via > the buffer cache). Basic usage is: > > modprobe blkmtd device=/dev/floppy/0 etc > > If you are going to put a JFFS2 fs on the device, please note that > it can take quite a while to mount because JFFS2 scans every block. > A 96MB CF card took about 2 minutes. > > On the plus side, if you have more memory then the size of the device, > you should find the whole device in the page cache ;) > > cheers > si > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ Hi, We have CF slot on our board, but no IDE controllers. Can I still use your blkmtd.c driver to access CF ? If not, what approach should I take to utilize CF (adding IDE controller is not an option) ? Thanks in advance. Felix.