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Mathieu,<BR>
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Thanks for responding!<BR>
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On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:42 +0200, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Do you mean that you can't even created a void file on / as root ? Else</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">can you then put for instance text in it ? My point is can or can't you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">first create a new fs node and then can you write to file your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">changes, that's two possible causes.</FONT>
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# pwd<BR>
/<BR>
# touch newfile<BR>
touch: newfile: No space left on device<BR>
#<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes indeed what about drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c ? your parts are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mask_flags: MTD_WRITEB_WRITEABLE and not MTD_CAP_ROM,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">aren't they ?</FONT>
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My chip is pretty standard NOR type Flash, and gets recognized by CFI as using command set 0001. It gets these flags:<BR>
#define MTD_CAP_NORFLASH (MTD_CLEAR_BITS|MTD_ERASEABLE)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ***</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # Memory Technology Devices (MTD)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> #</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> CONFIG_MTD=y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG is not set</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT is not set</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS is not set</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS is not set</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">[...]</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> # CONFIG_JFFS_FS is not set</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> CONFIG_JFFS2_FS=y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Better avoid redundacy but this is not a clue, I guess</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">make won't be fooled by this.</FONT>
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Sorry, what's redundant here? I just used 'make menuconfig', and hopefully it notices incorrect options.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">IMHO, it's not a generation-time issue</FONT>
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Good. I'll keep plugging away with my BDI<BR>
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thanks again,<BR>
Ben
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