Help Out

[Nick Krause]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
> Am 27.03.2015 um 15:20 schrieb Nicholas Krause:
>>
>>
>> On March 27, 2015 9:52:59 AM EDT, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
>>> Am 27.03.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Nick Krause:
>>>> Greetings All,
>>>> I have been reading this list for the last few weeks and was
>>> wondering
>>>> how I can start contributing.
>>>> Further more I have some understanding of kernel internals and file
>>>> systems related to Linux so
>>>> helping out would be no problem, if there are any requests for where
>>> I
>>>> should start please let me
>>>> known.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>> Just get some hardware and start play with it. Try to brake it or write
>>> a new driver. After some work you will see how match work is needed :)
>> Olaf,
>> That's the issue,  I don't know where to
>> purchase a board with mtd flash on it.
>> If you can point to where I can purchase a rather inexpensive board for this that would be great. Furthermore I was interested in how we are doing with fixing the issue relating to handling data concisely if there is a  power failure when writing to the flash on the system.
>> Nick
>
> Not sure if i can suggest you exact board. Probably i can give you some
> direction. Since you wish to play with file system, then you probably
> need some think bigger then 8MB of storage. In this case NAND will be
> better choice.
> You will need a SOC/Board with:
> - NAND controller
> - as match open as possible - you will need to work with latest vanilla
> kernel source.
>
> - MIPS Creator CI20
> - ASM9260t eval board (i work on upstreaming. if you wish to work on
> this, we can talk about it)
>
> Other options with nand on board? Or other suggestions?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleksij
>
I would be glad to help you upstream the board you are working on.
Cheers,
Nick