JFFS2 on NAND Flash

JFFS2 on NAND Flash

[parthasarathy.muniswamy]

Hello to all

 

            Our aim is to use JFFS2 with NAND flash. The target board is
SDP2430. 

            

           The proceedings are described below.

 

            Tool chain used:  arm-linux , ver 3.3.2

            

 Kernel: 2.6, support for MTD and JFFS2 is enabled

 

MTD util:  mtd-utils-1.0.1

                Built this with the above tool chain, and installed it
on /Project/rootfs. This will be used as target RFS

 

Mkefs2 utility is used to generate a ramdisk from /Project/rootfs.

 

On successful booting the kernel on the target, with the above image and
ramdisk, we tried to use the MTD util nftl_format. 

But it returns the following error

 

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# nftl_format /dev/mtd12

/sbin/nftl_format: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

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Also, the same error results, for all the MTD util, like nandwrite,
nand_info, mkfs.jffs2, etc.

 

Please help. 

 

Let me know if, you need any other information.

 

Thanks in advance

Partha 

Re: JFFS2 on NAND Flash

[Nishanth Menon]

parthasarathy.muniswamy@wipro.com stated on 5/2/2007 6:20 AM:
> ------------
>
> # nftl_format /dev/mtd12
>
> /sbin/nftl_format: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
>
> ---------
first see which binary is executing - "which nftl_format"-same as what
you intended.., then try strace. Looks most probably to be a filesystem
issue.. mebbe check thru the mtd compilation path once.. do a "file
binary_name" to see ABI versions etc..
Regards,
NM