2008-07-09 09:41:52 Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Oussema Harbi (TUNISIA)
Message: 58546
i want to write a partition image Directly on flash from uClinux ,but all i could find are documents talking about setting some options when compiling the kernel -MTD and jffs2 support .. -
I guess my kernel is not compiled with those options turned on ,because i couldnt use commands like read or fread or erase or eraseall ...And when doing cat /proc/mtd this is what i get :
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00800000 00001000 "ROMfs" .
That means i have only one partition mounted ,thats the file system .I cant see the kernel partition.
So am asking if someone knows a way to write on flash dirctly.
PS :
I dont have much mem space available ,300ko .When booting the system charges the rootfs in ram and works with it -i deduced that because every changes i made are gone when i reboot -.
When i try to copy some file to /home for example ,it tells me there is no enough space available -that means there are only 300ko available to be written .So am am right when i say that the partition created on ram as romfs has the same sizw as my flash ?
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2008-07-09 23:35:02 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Yi Li (CHINA)
Message: 58582
What kernel version are you using?
To use command like "flash_eraseall", please read: http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=uclinux-dist:mtd-utils.
"dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00800000 00001000 "ROMfs" ."
This means you does not enable any flash. It looks you have enabled "Generic uClinux RAM / ROM FS Support". It is a ram-based mtd driver and not necessary.
please read: http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=linux-kernel:mtd.
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2008-07-10 04:43:06 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Oussema Harbi (TUNISIA)
Message: 58607
I am using Linux version 2.6.19.3-ADI-2007R1-svn (root@sevens) (gcc version 4.1.1 (ADI 07R1)) #4 Thu Apr 5 17:34:01 CST 2007
Am using it ,because that's the newest version with a size less then 4Mo -My flash storage capacity-
It was not me who configured or compiled it ,and as config files are not provided with the kernels available for download )by the way that will be a great idea to put config files with kernels to download them -As configuration of that kernel/linux is not provided ,I couldnt really guess that No Flash devices were enabled - although i should have deduced that when i couldnt find my flash on /proc/mtd-.
Anyway ,I am looking for an image with a size of 3M or 2.5M :I tried to compile my own one ,but the size is everytime more then 4 M -even after compression.
YiLi ,the link you provided is talking about enabling these functions from the kernel configuration "All utilities can be found in your vendor/user configuration menu"
What i am asking you is exactly : Is it possible to add the support for Flash operations -like erase ,write..- without recompiling the kernel ?
Thank you in advance.
PS : :
this is the log from the kernel messages that may interrest you :
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Blackfin mac net device registered
uclinux[mtd]: RAM probe address=0x3700000 size=0x800000
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "RAM":
0x00000000-0x00800000 : "ROMfs"
uclinux[mtd]: set ROMfs:EXT2 to be root filesystem
rtc-bfin rtc-bfin: rtc intf: sysfs
rtc-bfin rtc-bfin: rtc intf: proc
rtc-bfin rtc-bfin: rtc intf: dev (254:0)
rtc-bfin rtc-bfin: rtc core: registered rtc-bfin as rtc0
**********
there is nothing about memory partitions before ,or after that
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2008-07-10 06:26:34 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Hadi Boulfelfel (FRANCE)
Message: 58616
Oussema,
If the problem comes from the svn version you are using, try to delete some useless applications when you build the Linux-2.6.22.18-ADI-2008R1-svn. This will reduce the images size less than 4MB (about 3.6MB).
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2008-07-10 10:14:50 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Robin Getz (UNITED STATES)
Message: 58627
Oussema:
The config files are in every uImage that we distribute. - kernel config is in /proc/config.gz and userspace config is in /root/config.gz
Boot the image - get the config files.
-Robin
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2008-07-10 13:35:59 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Oussema Harbi (TUNISIA)
Message: 58635
ok ,but i posted that because in some image files ,these config files were missing.
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2008-07-15 03:59:28 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)
Message: 58811
older released versions did not contain all the same config files
if you dont see the flash listed in /proc/mtd then it means you dont have the drivers (or right ones) loaded (or configured)
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2008-07-15 04:42:05 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Oussema Harbi (TUNISIA)
Message: 58838
Thank you Mike Frysinger
I noticed that and tried to compile my own kernel including mtd and nand flash driver in it ,but everytime i compile it there is a different error thzt appears ,usch as :
bfin-uclinux-gcc -Wl,-elf2flt -mcpu=bf537-0.2 -o boa alias.o boa.o buffer.o cgi.o cgi_header.o config.o escape.o get.o hash.o ip.o log.o mmap_cache.o pipe.o queue.o range.o read.o request.o response.o signals.o util.o sublog.o select.o timestamp.o -lcrypt
make[4]: quittant le répertoire « /media/disk/oussema/uClinux-dist-2008R1-RC8-2/user/boa-new/src »
make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /media/disk/oussema/uClinux-dist-2008R1-RC8-2/user/boa-new »
make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /media/disk/oussema/uClinux-dist-2008R1-RC8-2/user »
make[1]: *** [all] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /media/disk/oussema/uClinux-dist-2008R1-RC8-2/user »
make: *** [subdirs] Erreur 1
So could you please give me a valid config file that works .
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2008-07-15 04:51:39 Re: Erasing and Writing in Flash from uClinux
Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)
Message: 58839
you didnt post the actual error. if you want to quickly see the error message, run `make single`.
every distribution already comes with valid config files ... the default ones.