[OLPC-devel] Flash driver status.

[Jim Gettys]

There is also jffs2 boot code in the CRL bootloader hosted on
handhelds.org
                        - Jim


On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child