File systems and Disk on Chips

[Charles Manning]

On Sunday 06 July 2003 18:42, Russ Dill wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:00, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > I have here a 2 Megabyte Disk on Chip device, plugged into a carrier
> > board. It is now wearing the GRUB based firmware. How when I bring up
> > my system, the DOC device complains about the lack of a file system.
> > Any ideas as to how I could put a file system on this device?
> > Preferably as a native Linux format.
>
> Basically, you put a block filesystem on top of NFTL that grub
> understands. Grub does not at this point understand YAFFS or JFFS2 on
> NAND flash, but I'm sure there a lot of people who are looking for that
> and it wouldn't be difficult to do.

There is a YAFFS bootloader in CVS. Integrating into any loader (eg. grub) 
should not be a big effort. estimate less than a day.

-- CHarles