FTL and Endianity
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Jul 9 05:32:44 EDT 2001
keith_siders at toshibatv.com said:
> So since I'm using big-endian MIPS, does this effect JFFS2? That is,
> does FTL stand for Flash Translation Layer, or some such thing?
JFFS2 is host-endian. It shouldn't affect you at all. You don't need to use
FTL, JFFS works directly on the flash.
If you're making your JFFS2 filesystem images on a little-endian box for
use on your target, make sure you use the appropriate arguments to
mkfs.jffs2 to make it do the byteswapping.
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