building M-Sys DOC driver as a module

Ollie Lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Thu Jul 20 21:29:11 EDT 2000


David Woodhouse wrote:
> Modular drivers and initrd are a horrible waste of space in an embedded
> system, IMO. Far better to cut out module support completely, and even
> also block device support, putting JFFS on the DiskOnChip instead of NFTL.
> 
> The free driver isn't far off being usable in production - there's not a
> lot to do, it's just that I haven't had time to do it. Patrick is close to
> having ECC support, now we just need to properly thread the NFTL code and
> make it deal correctly with bad blocks, and for better efficiency, stick
> in the state handling for the individual flash chips, like I did for the
> CFI chips.
> 
> Trevor - Did I miss something of the TODO list that we drew up?
> 

David,
	I think we will have ext2 on NFTL on DoC Millennium configuration
for LinuxBIOS project so I am also working on revisiting the nftl.c Could
you please send me your TODO list on NFTL stuff ??

Ollie


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