Mounting big endian jffs2 images on mtdram on a x86

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 16:37 +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:34 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:05 +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to mount an JFFS2 image made with mkfs.jffs2 on my x86
> > > laptop. The image is made with --big-endian set.
> > 
> > I think you cannot do this without re-compiling JFFS2. I am not sure,
> > just glance to the code (to je32_to_cpu and the like macros).
> 
> Oki, then I at least know where to look. It would have been a nice
> feature to add support for choosing endianess when loading the module.
> 
> I would not recommend customers or less experienced Linux people to
> recompile one of their kernel modules to support big endian JFFS2
> images.

Ideally, we would have the capability for doing a -o loop mount of
jffs2.  Requiring a device to shove the data in sucks.  If this ever
materializes, we should add an endian-ness parameter to it to
automatically do some mapping.

josh