[Yaffs] [Yaffs-archive] Re: How about use YAFFS without MTD under Linux box?

[Charles Manning]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:50, guo@unication.com.cn wrote:
> Mr Manning,
>
> > You certainly can use YAFFS under Linux without mtd - some people have
> > done 
 this already. YAFFS does all its NAND accesses via four functions.
> > If you provide functions that access the NAND directly then things will
> > work.
>
>     Thank you for your help. I tried it following your guide and found it.
>
> > Do I recommend doing this? In general I suggest rather using mtd because
> > it 
 adds other capabilities. There are always some reasons in embedded
> > development why you want to do things differently.
>
> Because I plain to use YAFFS Direct Bootloader, so I must write 4
> functions. and,
 Following install guide, I patch MTD to kernel 2.4.18 or
> 2.4.21, both of those cannot compile success and I must modify some code.
> So I think MTD is not stable for use. 
> Best Regards,
> Russell Greece.

You only need the read and initialise functions for the bootloader (you don't 
need write and erase).

Have fun :-)...

-- CHarles

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