Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Mar 20 12:39:46 EST 2002


gleixner at autronix.de said:
> That's one side of the problem. The other is, that you can use only
> JFFS2 on  this devices at the moment . There is no other filesystem,
> which handles the  nand stuff correct.  If you want to use the
> original SMC DOS-FAT filesystem, which is used by  MP3-Players,
> Digicams etc., you have to hack a new filesystem driver. 

SmartMedia is just another translation layer which pretends to be a block 
device (cf. previous rants). You normally put FAT on that block device, 
just as you do with NFTL and FTL - but you don't have to.

At least two people have expressed interest in writing that translation 
layer code. I haven't seen any of it yet.

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dwmw2






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