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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Jack Lu <jlu@rdmcorp.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: the procedure setting up jffs2
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:37:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D811741.FB5178A@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DFEAJMIABOLKNEBOPGDHAECJCBAA.jlu@rdmcorp.com

Jack Lu wrote:
> I am using RPX850 Lite with 16MB flash(4 chips of Am29Lv320MB) with buswidth
> 32 and interleave 4.
> I have complied the MTD and JFFS2 module into the kernel.
> When I start up the Linux, Linux found the 16MB flash, the whole flash
> corresponds to /dev/mtd0.
> 
> 1. where can I get the mkfs.jffs2 excutable for MPC850?

Hmm... There are quite a few places that provide pre-packaged PPC tools,
Denx (denx.de) is one of those. If you have the cross-compiling tools
already, then building it on your own should be fairly easy also.

> 2. the bottom 256KB is the boot loader code of the 16MB flash. the rest si
> for storing data
>         if I do
>         #cat jffs2.image > /dev/mtd0
>         will the bootloader be erased?

The chip you mention is bottom-boot, so the above will very likely wipe-out
the bootloader. You probably want to partition your MTD device by modifying
the mapping driver and then write the JFFS2 image to another partition then
/dev/mtd0. Check drivers/mtd/tqm8xxl.c for an example.

Karim

===================================================
                 Karim Yaghmour
               karim@opersys.com
      Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-12 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13  8:37 the procedure setting up jffs2 Jack Lu
2002-09-12 22:37 ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2002-09-12 23:14   ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-09-13  0:15     ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-09-13  8:35       ` Marius Groeger
2002-09-13  9:07         ` David Woodhouse

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