[OLPC-devel] Flash driver status.

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:34 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> how hard would a driver for FILO be, given that we can't get 1MBYTE 
> flash parts at this point? I have no way to boot linux. 

Read-only JFFS2 support is relatively simple. The standard JFFS2 code is
suitable for building in to RedBoot, and all the write and GC support
drops out quite nicely when you build with function-sections and
gc-sections.

Hopefully, a certain large company will release the dynamic partitioning
stuff they've been working on, and we'll put the kernel image in to a
partition on its own instead of needing JFFS2 support in the bootloader.
That's about three weeks off at best though.

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dwmw2