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Paul Schulz wrote:
> Rather than make use of the mtd drivers for Linux (for whatever reason), they
> ship their own binary flash modules for Linux. This is used by both
> the bootloader
> and the modified linux kernel. This makes is (nearly) impossible to look into
> various hardware  related issues on this platform eg.
>   
Had some problems with this myself.  The proprietary boot loader is 
annoying...

I believe they've open sourced the mtd driver now in this "[PATCH 04/06] 
CM-x2xx: MTD" patch to the arm-linux list.

Justin.