mapping of boot loader offset

Robert Kaiser rob at sysgo.de
Thu Apr 11 15:43:21 EDT 2002


On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Tino Keitel wrote:

> I wonder what to do if a processor looks for its BIOS/loader at a specified
> address that is somewhere in the middle of a flash chip. The same chip will
> contain one JFFS2. The boot loader area will have to be mapped out of the
> file system. Is there already something that MTD can do for me?

Have a look at the dilnetpc.c map driver. It has to deal with 
exactly this situation and it does so by using the mtd concat layer.

Rob

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