Re: Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested

Thomas Gleixner
2002-03-20T18:57:34Z

On Mittwoch, 20. März 2002 18:39 , David Woodhouse wrote:
> gleixner@autronix.de said:
> > That's one side of the problem. The other is, that you can use only
> > JFFS2 on this devices at the moment . There is no other filesystem,
> > which handles the nand stuff correct. If you want to use the
> > original SMC DOS-FAT filesystem, which is used by MP3-Players,
> > Digicams etc., you have to hack a new filesystem driver.
>
> SmartMedia is just another translation layer which pretends to be a block
> device (cf. previous rants). You normally put FAT on that block device,
> just as you do with NFTL and FTL - but you don't have to.
Yep, but the SmartMedia FAT is different to MSDOS-FAT in some points.

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Thomas
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