[Yaffs] YAFFS on kernel 2.4

[Nick Bane]

> Hi,
> Source for kernel 2.4.19 is also there at husaberg.toby-churchill.com,
> I am working on PXA 255 board with kernel 2.4.19 as no patches are
> available for kernel 2.4.25 for XScale.
> I got the NAND flash worked on 2.6 kernel (tried jffs2) but for some
> reasons, I have to stick with the 2.4 kernel.
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I haven't maitained 2.4.29 for a long while now. I consider ot obsolete. =
However, I believe it to have worked fine with the mtd/yaffs at that =
time.

> I used 2.4.19 from the above site, I got YAFFS mounted successfully=20
> command "df" shows entire partition is empty but if I copy any data on
> to the NAND partition it takes too much time and finally gives error
> message
> "cp: cannot create regular file `abc': Cannot allocate memory"
> Now "df" shows that there is no space on the device
> Can any one help me out to fix it up.
>=20
Hmm. I remember that one. I am pretty sure it was fixed in later =
versions of the kernel+yaffs.


> The source that I got doing wget from husaberg.toby-churchill.com, has
> few files missing and is not getting compiled therefore from that
> source I used ...
> 1. fs/yaffs
> 2. mtd/mtdpart.c
> 3. drivers/mtd/nand and
> 4. required header files only (can this be the reason for?)
> Is anywhere tar compressed archive available for same source?
>=20
I suggest trying a wget of the 2.4.25 series. The latest can be =
downloaded via viewcvs and/or subversion.



Nick

> Thanks,
> Ramesh
>=20
> On 6/13/05, Nick Bane <nick@cecomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > Look at husaberg.toby-churchill.com/balloon/ and wget the=20
> 2.4.25-vrs2-tcl1 tree.
> >=20
> > Nick Bane
> >=20
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> > > From: yaffs-admin@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
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> > > Sent: 13 June 2005 16:13
> > > To: yaffs@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
> > > Subject: [Yaffs] YAFFS on kernel 2.4
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am trying to get NAND flash work on kernel 2.4
> > > can anyone please tell me from where can I get yaffs source
> > > appropriate for kernel 2.4
> > >
> > > The source available today at=20
> http://www.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
> > > seems to be meant for kernel 2.6
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ramesh
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