mtdblock: module -vs- kernel

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Gregory Schallert wrote:

> I have hacked physmap.c and jedec.c (my chips do not support CFI) and can now
> mount a filesystem on my flash device.  Everything works wonderful as a
> modules ( both block and char devices)....
>
> Now I want to make the flash device a root filesystem.  I have edited
> init/main.c and added the /dev/flash I node number and init_mtd function.

Why adding init_mtd?

> When I boot with mtdblock0 as my boot device It will uncompress the kernel and
> load it.  It then recognizes /dev/mtdblock0 as the boot device, but when it
> tries to load the filesystem it crashes.
>
> If  I do not set mtdblock0 as my boot device( and boot from floppy), the mtd
> char driver seems to be working fine when compiled into the kernel but I can
> not mount a block device. The proc/dev/ dir contains both mtd and mtdblock.
> the /proc/mtd dir only contains mtd0, and will not recognize mtdblock0 as a
> valid block device. (that means I can not mount any flash chips)

What does /proc/devices say?


Nicolas



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