SMC+vivi

Ben Dooks ben-linux at fluff.org
Mon Mar 13 10:41:29 EST 2006


On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Selmeci, Tamas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is anybody here who has some experience with SmartMedia Cards and Vivi?
> (Especially on S3C2410?)

Do you have the following:

1) The S3C2410 NAND driver compiled into the kernel
2) Your board code adding the platform device for the NAND

> My boot device is a 64MB SMC. This is partitioned with Vivi, which is
> also the boot manager. These are the partitions:
> 1. Vivi program code
> 2. Vivi data
> 3. Kernel image
> 4. Root FS
> 
> Data is downloaded to the card via the developer board, using it's
> specific download tool. 
> 
> Everything is OK until the point where I want to mount root fs. It seems
> that the SMC is partitioned in the standard MTD-manner, but currently I
> can't make my kernel mount the rootfs.I don't know if I have to enable
> NFTL and FTL in 2.6.15-5 kernel in order to be able to mount the root fs
> located on SMC. Currently they're enabled, but during the boot, the
> kernel displays no message at all about MTD devices - I think it should,
> because SMC is an MTD too... That's why the given kernel root parameters
> (root=/dev/mtdblock/3, mtdblock3) are all useless.
> 
> What should I do? Does anybody has any idea?
> 
> Regards:
> --
> Tamas Selmeci
> Siemens PSE HU
> Tel.:    +36-1-471-3861
> Email:   tamas.selmeci at siemens.com
> Address: H-1143 Budapest, Gizella ut 51-59 
> 
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