Jffs2 issue on latest mtd for Sibley NOR

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Tue Nov 22 11:57:28 EST 2005


On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:

> Menon, Nishanth wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have been trying Sibley NOR flash and the latest (as of today) MTD
> > tree on my kernel.
> > When I use the character device, I am able to unlock, erase, write and
> > read from it successfully. Unfortunately, when I try to use jffs2 on it,
> > I face the following issue:
> Could you please try to reproduce this on mtdram device which is just an
> emulator of NOR flash in RAM ?

That's useless in this case.

> > CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER=y
> This is not usually needed for NOR. is 'siblay' an exception?

Yes it is.


Nicolas




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