* AW: RFC: extending (reserved)
@ 2004-12-15 12:15 Neundorf, Alexander
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From: Neundorf, Alexander @ 2004-12-15 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: liberty, David Vrabel; +Cc: ecos-devel
> 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
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