Subject: Re: Flash filesystems for NetBSD/arm32?
To: None <vii@users.sourceforge.net>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/09/2001 00:59:07
>> What options do I have here? I have managed to create ramdisk-141.fs
>> and store it in flash and boot from it, and that works
>> fine. However, this is a read only filesystem - I need something
>> that is read/write i.e. files stored in the flash filesystem may be
>> modified?
>>
>> Are there any ways to do this at present? If not, is anybody working
>> on this or similar? If not, is anybody interested in working on this
>> with me?
There isn't anything like JFFS2.
>I could use a similar thing for the (very much unfinished) psionw
>port. Why didn't you cc the hpc people?
The hpc* ports are running on top of WinCE, they don't modify the ROM.
The iPAQ was pretty much the first WinCE system to use flash instead
of mask rom.
Robert Swindells