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From: Subodh Nijsure <subodh@best.com>
To: matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com (Matthias Fuchs)
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: flash writing with Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:25:38 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103161525.HAA26938@shell9.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AB1E380.7E88EC47@esd-electronics.com> from Matthias Fuchs at "Mar 16, 1 10:57:20 am"


>
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know if a flash writing tool for Linux is available ?
> I want to update a flash image from a running Linux. The Linux is
> running from a ramdisk, so the flash can be erased and rewritten.
>
> I think what I need are two thing: A device driver for accessing the
> flash and a command line tool for erasing and writing to the flash.

Perhaps you can take a look at mtd and use that to manage your flash.
With mtd you can partition your flash to different devices and erase them
selectively.

Once you have your flash partitioned you can simply cat a file to /dev/mtd#
to copy new content to the flash.

/Subodh Nijsure

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-16 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-16  9:57 flash writing with Linux Matthias Fuchs
2001-03-16 10:37 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-03-16 15:25 ` Subodh Nijsure [this message]
2001-03-19 17:16   ` Matthias Fuchs
2001-03-19 17:35     ` Wolfgang Denk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-19 17:31 Kári Davíðsson
2001-03-19 17:45 Julia Elbert

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