Possibly a FAQ or stupid question

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Tue Dec 5 13:42:42 EST 2000



On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> ian.nelson at echostar.com said:
> > Can I just dd to the flash?  Assuming that my AMD flash works with CFI...
>
> No. you have to use the MEMERASE ioctl first.

Well...  not if using /dev/mtdblock.

To update my kernel in flash I simply use

	cp zImage /dev/mtdblock1


Nicolas



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