SmartMedia FAT

[simon at baydel.com]

I would like to be able to access FAT partitions on a SMC via Linux. Curently the 
hardare loads its' configuration and boots the hardware from files on a FAT partition. 
The hardware itself has no hardware flash translation layer. The SMC has been 
created on a USB device which contains a flash translation layer conforming to the 
SFFDC standard. After this a JFFS2 root is mounted. It would be nice if I could 
change the hardware and boot files from Linux but I have been unable to find any 
reliable way of accessing the FAT filesystem.

As far as I understand, from the information I have read, I would need to create  a 
block driver which contained a SSFDC compatible translation layer ? In the nand 
FAQ it mentions SmartMedia FAT. I have been unable to find how this is 
implemented. Has anyone implemented this yet ?

I would like to know if my assumptions are correct. If so I guess there are many ways 
this could be achieved. 

1. Wrirte my on block driver ?
2. Bolt on some bits to mtdblock ?
3. As I don't do this all the time write a user app to update via /dev/mtd

All comments welcome.


Many Thanks

Simon.__________________________

Simon Haynes - Baydel 
Phone : 44 (0) 1372 378811
Email : simon at baydel.com
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