Boot loader that understands JFFS2

Boot loader that understands JFFS2

[Frederic Giasson]

Hi David,

Do you know if there is a boot loader that understands JFFS2 so it could
read a JFFS2-compressed image stored in the filesystem itself?  I made some
search and I didn't find anything that convinced me that it has been
written.

Thanks!


Frédéric Giasson

Re: Boot loader that understands JFFS2

[Russ Dill]

Frederic Giasson wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Do you know if there is a boot loader that understands JFFS2 so it could
> read a JFFS2-compressed image stored in the filesystem itself?  I made some
> search and I didn't find anything that convinced me that it has been
> written.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Frédéric Giasson
> 
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general code to boot cramfs/jffs2
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm/2001-June/001523.html

patch against blob
http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/list/list.php3?arc=lart&sd=1&sm=6&sy=2001&ed=30&em=6&ey=2001&sort=t&inl=&mid=3B2FB1AB.35FF17DD%40asu.edu#body

btw, don't cc david when you mail the mtd mailing list, I'm sure he is
subscribed

Re: Boot loader that understands JFFS2

[David Woodhouse]

Russ.Dill@asu.edu said:
>  btw, don't cc david when you mail the mtd mailing list, I'm sure he
> is subscribed 

I'm subscribed. I have no objection to being Cc'd though - if one copy of 
your mail ends up in my inbox and one in lists/mtd¹ the former may well get 
read earlier - although I make no promises :)

In this case, I knew there were people out there who could answer more 
usefully than I, so I was ignoring the question for a while. If it wasn't 
answered by tomorrow afternoon, I would have attempted to answer it.

The only thing I really object to is people asking questions of me alone - 
thereby forcing me to answer them instead of leaving it to other people.

--
dwmw2

¹ Yes, that's what happens. Nobody's doing anything silly like filtering on 
the To and Cc header in the text of the mail itself, are they?

Re: Boot loader that understands JFFS2

[Russ Dill]

Frederic Giasson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your help.  I read what I found at the link you mentionned in
> your original message, but I am unable to get the source code.  Can you tell
> me were I can ftp / cvs it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Frédéric Giasson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Dill [mailto:Russ.Dill@asu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:32 PM
> To: Frederic Giasson; linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Boot loader that understands JFFS2
> 
> > Do you know if there is a boot loader that understands JFFS2 so it could
> > read a JFFS2-compressed image stored in the filesystem itself?  I made
> some
> > search and I didn't find anything that convinced me that it has been
> > written.
> >
> general code to boot cramfs/jffs2
> http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm/2001-June/001523.html
> 
> patch against blob
> http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/list/list.php3?arc=lart&sd=1&sm=6&sy=2001&ed=30&e
> m=6&ey=2001&sort=t&inl=&mid=3B2FB1AB.35FF17DD%40asu.edu#body

try here: http://russ.dhs.org/load_kernel.html