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19 years ago

How to add second flash to MTD

I am using a board with 2 16 MB CFI flashes. Flash 1 at 0x0 and Flash at 0x02000000. uClinux detects flash 1 and does not detect flash 2. I am using microtronix map where i see, It sends dat...
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19 years ago

Thank you Hippo. My idea is to have uClinux and FS in Flash1 which will be protected from any write with a jumper and JFFS2 on Flash 2 which will be writable. The system what I am working on runs 24X7 and should be crash free / Auto recoverable. To avoid corruption of the kernel or FS I am trying to do the above.

How can I do this? I checked out the CFI driver in Microtronix dist. It is completely hardcoded for flash at 0x0. How can I solve my problem. I dont know if concat will help me do what i am planning.

Please suggest.