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AW: RFC: extending (reserved)
- From: "Neundorf, Alexander" <Alexander dot Neundorf at jenoptik dot com>
- To: <liberty at embeddedx86 dot com>, "David Vrabel" <dvrabel at arcom dot com>
- Cc: <ecos-devel at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:14:30 +0100
- Subject: AW: RFC: extending (reserved)
> Von: ecos-devel-owner@sources.redhat.com
>
> > liberty@embeddedx86.com wrote:
> >>
> >> 2) simplify board ports to Linux.
> >>
> >> On point 1, our platform needs guaranteed space for our BootROM and
> >> jffs2
> >> image...
> >
> > We use a utility that generates an appropriate FIS table
> (with arbitrary
> > entries) as part of an entire flash image.
> >
> > You can also explicitly create (for example) a jffs2 fis
> entry with the
> > fis create commmand.
> >
>
> the problem we have with using fis create is that it isn't
> protected and
> guaranteed to be there if we do an fis init. We really want to mark a
> section of flash for the OS and leave the rest open for our
> end customers
> to do with as they wish.
I am working on an implementation of a fis file system for ecos, together with a virtual vector interface for updating/creating/erasing fis images.
Search for "contributing a failsafe fis update mechanism..." in the archive.
Bye
Alex