Re: utilities for mtd

Niraj Maheshwari
2005-02-28T07:57:04Z

Hi,

I think you must have tried flash_erase on a block device
(/dec/mtdblock0) but flash_erase will work only for Char Device. So
you can create a char MTD device by giving below commands.

mknod /dev/mtd0 c 90 0

Now try the flash_erase command, it should work.

Regds
Niraj

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:34:34 -0800, C. Michael Sundius
<msundius@sundius.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using a the mtd code from the 2.4.20 kernel. how/where do I get
> the corresponding utilities
> such as flash_erase, flash_lock etc... I grabbed a random version of
> them somewhere and it
> didn't seem to work.. for one the flash_erase program calls an ioctl
> "MEMGETREGIONCOUNT"
> and my kernel returned:
> in appropriate ioctl for this device....
>
> any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> C Michael Sundius
> Solico Group LLC
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> San Francisco, CA 94110
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