[PLUG] booting from a compact flash card

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> writes:

Keith> Interesting to know about - but UBIFS is designed to work with
Keith> raw flash memory devices, such as the ones in PDAs and cell
Keith> phones, not memory products with built-in controllers like
Keith> Compact Flash Cards (CF) and Solid State Drives (SSD).  

That goes for jffs2 as well.  On Alix and other x86 targets, OpenWrt
does a mtd-block layer to pretend that the block device provided by
the CF card is really a raw flash device so that it can still use
jffs2.  Perverse but true.  Well, either true or I am really confused.


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