flash writing with Linux

[Matthias Fuchs]

Hi Subodh,

Subodh Nijsure wrote:
>
> Perhaps you can take a look at mtd and use that to manage your flash.
> With mtd you can partition your flash to different devices and erase them
> selectively.
What is mtd ? Never heard of before !
>
> Once you have your flash partitioned you can simply cat a file to /dev/mtd#
> to copy new content to the flash.
That sounds nice and seems to be same like the stuff Wolfgang offered in
his 2.4.3-preX patch.

Matthias


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