Re: flash writing with Linux

In message [ref] Matthias Fuchs wrote:

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Perhaps you can take a look at mtd and use that to manage your flash.
With mtd you can partition your flash to different devices and erase them
selectively.

What is mtd ? Never heard of before !

Memory Technology Devices.

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Once you have your flash partitioned you can simply cat a file to /dev/mtd#
to copy new content to the flash.

That sounds nice and seems to be same like the stuff Wolfgang offered in
his 2.4.3-preX patch.

Yes, there is a significant overlap in functionality.

I intend to drop support for our driver once MTD is working.

Wolfgang Denk

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