Re: [PATCH] mtd: allow mtd and jffs2 when ARCH=um

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 22:08 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2010 09:18:31 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 00:31 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > That is awesome and I'm not finding any documentation on it...  Ah:
> > >
> > >  
> > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Modifying_the_root_image#Block_device_emulating_an_
> > >MTD_device
> > >
> > > Wow that's awkward.  Let's see, that says...
> > >
> > >   mknod /tmp/mtdblock0 b 31 0
> > >   modprobe loop
> > >   losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs.jffs2
> > >   modprobe mtdblock
> > >   modprobe block2mtd
> > >   # Note the ,128KiB is needed (on 2.6.26 at least) to set the
> > >   # eraseblock  size.
> > >   echo "/dev/loop0,128KiB" > /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
> > >   modprobe jffs2
> > >   mount -t jffs2 /tmp/mtdblock0 /media/jffs2
> >
> > You should not need mtdblock in modern kernels, it is legacy. You should
> > be abole to mount jffs2 on top of mtd0 with
> >
> > mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /media/jffs2
> 
> How does one associate the mtd0 with the loopback device?  (I thought mtd0 was 
> for actual flash memory.)

You do not need loopback devices, just flash your rootfs.jffs2 directly
to /dev/mtd0, e.g., with nandwrite. You can emulate nand with nandsim.

But your method should also work, I just wanted to point that JFFS2 does
not depend on mtdblock in any way.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)