Flash with boot blocks in kernel 2.4

[Jared Hulbert]

On 5/19/05, JobHunts02 at aol.com <JobHunts02 at aol.com> wrote:
> I am working with kernel 2.4 on a board with two flash chips that have boot
> blocks, Intel Advanced Boot Block Flash Memory (28F320C3).  I just read that
> "the 2.4 CFI code handles only devices with uniform eraseblock size -- not the
> devices with 'boot blocks'. Current CVS fixes that for AMD chips, and it's
> trivial to do the same for Intel chips, now it's been done once," according to the
> MTD project leader.
> 
> Does anyone know where on the web I can find these "trivial" changes for
> Intel chips?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Newer MTD rev's fix this.  Back porting a new MTD should help you.

FYI - I don't think JFFS2 can span boot blocks and regular block,
though now that I think of it I've never tried.  Anybody know if
that's true or not?