Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:08:27 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linksys NSLU2 attempt Message-ID: <483D756B.50403@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <20080528.080542.-1749738850.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <483C6CC5.9010005@incunabulum.net> <20080527.144129.-1962638113.imp@bsdimp.com> <483CE242.3080500@incunabulum.net> <20080528.080542.-1749738850.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Can you point at this stuff? I had a look in freebsd-imp and arm but > : didn't see anything that jumped out at me. > > Right, they are in the p4 tree on my laptop right now... > Care to share? :-) > : It would be very cool to get stuff up on this NSLU2 because then I can > : start to think about things like MTD, flash, etc. > > MTD and flash are the same thing. And we have a driver for them in > the tree now, but I've not tried to write a bridge drive for the > xscale. > I see there are already some drivers for low level access to the whole flash device. The distinction: I was referring to the Linux model for flash partitioning; I'm thinking GEOM is the way to go here. It would be good to have MTD support so FreeBSD can be dropped on top of existing devices which have supported Linux.
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