[Yaffs] Time to drop yaffs RAM support in Linux?

Charles Manning manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Wed Jul 13 09:41:21 BST 2005


On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:25, Martin Fouts wrote:
>
> But tell me more, because I'm using nandsim with yaffs2 and it seems to
> be working -- at least for the primitive tests I'm doing.  This is in a
> 2.6.11.12 kernel.
>


At present there are 4 configurations supported in  YAFFS2 for Linux:

yaffs:       YAFFS backward compatability mode with mtd
yaffsram:  YAFFS backward compatability mode with internal RAM simulator
yaffs2:       YAFFS2 mode with 2kpage mtd
yaffs2ram:  YAFFS2 mode with internal RAM simulator

The xxxram versions were really only temporary hacks that were there so that I 
could prove yaffs in-kernel without mtd.I also did a really rough mtd nand 
simulation to test out the mtd studd.

However, now that things have settled down and the mtd nandsim seems robust, I 
would like to suggest pulling out the xxxram variants and just use nandsim 
instead.

I would like to clean out dead stuff like this with an eye to cleaning up code 
for a kernel integration.

Comments?

-- CHarles





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