From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.87]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1AE9yc-0006ek-Sw for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:12:18 +0000 Received: from baydel.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.193]) by anchor-post-37.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AE9xU-000IA6-0b for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:11:08 +0000 From: "" To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:45:28 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F9D3D98.6453.14E703@localhost> Content-description: Mail message body Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: SmartMedia FAT List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I would like to be able to access FAT partitions on a SMC via Linux. Curently the hardare loads its' configuration and boots the hardware from files on a FAT partition. The hardware itself has no hardware flash translation layer. The SMC has been created on a USB device which contains a flash translation layer conforming to the SFFDC standard. After this a JFFS2 root is mounted. It would be nice if I could change the hardware and boot files from Linux but I have been unable to find any reliable way of accessing the FAT filesystem. As far as I understand, from the information I have read, I would need to create a block driver which contained a SSFDC compatible translation layer ? In the nand FAQ it mentions SmartMedia FAT. I have been unable to find how this is implemented. Has anyone implemented this yet ? I would like to know if my assumptions are correct. If so I guess there are many ways this could be achieved. 1. Wrirte my on block driver ? 2. Bolt on some bits to mtdblock ? 3. As I don't do this all the time write a user app to update via /dev/mtd All comments welcome. Many Thanks Simon.__________________________ Simon Haynes - Baydel Phone : 44 (0) 1372 378811 Email : simon@baydel.com __________________________