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

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Martin,

>>>My board had only one configuration-file associated, but multiple
>>>nand-size configurations.
>>>The jffs2-image problems were related to the endianess problems of
>>>mkfs.jffs2:
>>>http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-January/009091.html
>> Another reason for using our ELDK - it has a working mkfs.jff2 ;)
> Noo?! I used mkfs.jffs2 from ELDK 3.0:
>
> # mkfs.jffs2 --version
> mkfs.jffs2 revision 1.25
>
> # which mkfs.jffs2
> /usr/local/eldk/usr/bin/mkfs.jffs2
>
> # cat /usr/local/eldk/version
> ELDK version 3.0
> ppc_4xx: Build 2004-02-16
>
> But ofcourse, I guess the above error blocked u-boot from putting the
> correct image in the nand...

Yes, I think that failure cannot be attributed to an endianness
problem in the mkfs.jffs in the ELDK which works.

Cheers
  Detlev

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