From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl-64-129-131-125.telocity.com ([64.129.131.125] helo=mir.outpostsentinel.com ident=root) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16azVT-0002jb-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:31:31 +0000 From: "Chris Fowler" To: "Robert Sandilands" , "'David Woodhouse'" Cc: Subject: RE: FW: M-SYS Doc Replacements Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:42:41 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <9136BE9FE178D411A14F00508B6A0B7B36B7DD@ntserver1> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: That was my problem too. I woriginally built prototypes with 2.2.16 kernel. I needed to go to 2.4.X gor the ramfs stuff. I have no need for JFFS2. I finially stopped at 2.4.13 becasue of problems here and there with other drivers. At first the MTD driver would not even see my DOC. I'm using a BCOM WinNet 6 as my hardware. I gave up and went directly to the M-SYS driver and it saw the DOC. The main problem I was experiencing with 2.4.X was in the realm of ramdisks. It appears that the earlier 2.4.X kernels igoned my ramdisks and overworte the memory. I used about 3 ramdisks. I basically stored the images on the DOC and would allow initrd to write them to the correct /dev/ram[x] spot. Sometimes the kenrel could maount it sometimes it would not. All depended if it overwrote the memory and filesystem. I finally got better results with 2.4.13 and then I had to focus on fixing another buggy driver. As with most hardware vendors, they were to slow to update their driver to 2.4. So 2.2 drivers are in the 2.4 kernel. I'm too close to release to focus on the MTD driver right now. I'll integrate it in a second release. I'll allow it to stablize for one more year. Chris -----Original Message----- From: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Robert Sandilands Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:59 AM To: 'David Woodhouse' Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: FW: M-SYS Doc Replacements Ok, long story... The first driver we tried was the MTD driver, but that was Kernel 2.4.0 and the guy that did it, did not know what he was doing - I also suspect there was a few problems at that stage with the MTD driver. The binary driver did work and it was therefore used. Then problems with the Linux kernels forced us to first update to 2.4.3 and then to 2.4.5 where we are now. Every time other issues forced us to change and we wanted to keep everything as stable as possible, so we never tried the MTD drivers in that process. Everything seems stable with the 2.4.5 kernel except with the little problem with the load. We will most likely upgrade our kernel in the next 2-3 months to 2.4.10 or later and then will also take the step with the MTD driver, but up to that stage we have to live with the M-systems driver. >>From initial investigation the driver seems fine and with our next upgrade that is definitely what we will use. Thank you. Robert Sandilands > -----Original Message----- > From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org] > Sent: 13 February 2002 11:18 > To: Robert Sandilands > Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: FW: M-SYS Doc Replacements > > > > robert.sandilands@secureworx.com said: > > I really don't want to start a flame war about this, but I > think this > > is a great example of why open-source is better than proprietary > > software - and this discussions should be seen as such. If > not that is > > how I meant it. > > OK, thanks. Are you now using the GPL'd driver? Do you have > any problems > with it? I don't expect it to be perfect - but if there's something > sufficiently wrong with it that caused you to even _consider_ > trying the > other driver, I'd appreciate a bug report. > > > -- > dwmw2 > > ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/