From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AB63EEA.987DC654@esd-electronics.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:16:26 +0100 From: Matthias Fuchs MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subodh Nijsure , linuxppc-embedded Subject: Re: flash writing with Linux References: <200103161525.HAA26938@shell9.ba.best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Subodh, Subodh Nijsure wrote: > > 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. What is mtd ? Never heard of before ! > > Once you have your flash partitioned you can simply cat a file to /dev/mtd# > to copy new content to the flash. That sounds nice and seems to be same like the stuff Wolfgang offered in his 2.4.3-preX patch. Matthias -- ------------------------------------------------- \ Matthias Fuchs \ \ esd electronic system design Gmbh \ \ Vahrenwalder Straße 205 \ \ D-30165 Hannover \ \ email: matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com \ \ phone: +49-511-37298-0 \ \ fax: +49-511-37298-68 \ -------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/