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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Adding MTD support

Hello, We got a system that is not accessible, it only has an ethernet port. The OS was built without MTD support. We like to ftp all the MTD related kernel files to it, insert the kernel modu...
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15 years ago

Unfortunately this approach won't work, as long as you don't have defined the devices as part of your kernel (or in a device tree in more recent versions of the kernel).

I assume you already read http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/mtd about which configuration is needed for which type of flash (CFI, EPCS, NAND)?

You could try to write your own module (or load a device tree including the flash devices), registering the devices with the kernel and then loading the modules you specified.