[U-Boot-Users] Re: Reading or writing jffs2 - how?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Martin,

in message <41C7E65C.7030002@egholm-nielsen.dk> you wrote:
> 
> > Another reason for using our ELDK - it has a working mkfs.jff2 ;)
> Noo?! I used mkfs.jffs2 from ELDK 3.0:

Of course Detlev means: use the latest  and  greates  ELDK  -  i.  e.
release 3.1

> # mkfs.jffs2 --version
> mkfs.jffs2 revision 1.25

-> mkfs.jffs2 --version
mkfs.jffs2: revision 1.42

> # cat /usr/local/eldk/version
> ELDK version 3.0
> ppc_4xx: Build 2004-02-16

That's too old:

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PatchSet 342 
Date: 2004/06/16 11:57:35
Author: wd
Branch: HEAD
Tag: (none)  
Log:
Use mtd-snapshot-20040608 to get a more recent version of
mkfs.jffs2 as needed for NAND flash support.
   
Members: 
        cpkgs.lst:1.42->1.43 
        tarballs.lst:1.37->1.38 
        cross_rpms/mtd_utils/SOURCES/mtd_utils-jffs2.patch:1.1->1.2 
        cross_rpms/mtd_utils/SPECS/mtd_utils.spec:1.1->1.2 
   
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> But ofcourse, I guess the above error blocked u-boot from putting the 
> correct image in the nand...

Indeed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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