MTD nand driver help

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tushar Kapse wrote:

> Thanx for the reply,
> But, my problem is as follows,
>
> I have the board with PXA255 and want to port the Linux with MTD driver support.
> I got the steps for creating the JFFS2 file system are :
> 1. using mkfs.jffs2 create the file system.
> 2. using eraseall erase the /dev/mtdn device
> 3. using nandwrite copy the jffs2 image to /dev/mtdn.
> But, my qustion is for erasing and copping jffs2 image in  /dev/mtdn
> device do i need to have the file system exist in the nand already.

No, that should not be necessary. Copying the image using nandwrite to an 
erased nand partition /dev/mtdn should be ok.

/Ricard
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