Attached is a patch to add a "caveats" section to the Bering user guide chapter on booting from a DiskOnChip. It includes firmware incompatibility notes sent to me by John Cussans.
I tried to check it in myself, but it looks like I no longer have cvs write access to that document. If someone could apply this patch, I would be grateful. Thank you. --Brad
Index: budiskonchip.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/leaf/doc/guide/user-bering/budiskonchip.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -w -r1.6 budiskonchip.xml
--- budiskonchip.xml 26 Jun 2003 18:26:31 -0000 1.6
+++ budiskonchip.xml 23 Apr 2004 15:51:54 -0000
@@ -24,13 +24,16 @@
<revhistory>
<revision>
+ <revnumber>0.6</revnumber>
+ <date>2004-04-23</date>
+ <authorinitials>BF</authorinitials>
+ <revremark>added caveats section with firmware notes from John
Cussans</revremark>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
<revnumber>0.5</revnumber>
-
<date>2002-10-20</date>
-
<authorinitials>BF</authorinitials>
-
- <revremark>initial revison</revremark>
+ <revremark>initial revision</revremark>
</revision>
</revhistory>
</chapterinfo>
@@ -50,8 +53,21 @@
floppy drive during setup.</para>
<para>Comments on this section should be sent to Brad Fritz at
- <email>bradfritz at users.sourceforge.net</email>. This is revision
- $Revision: 1.6 $. Please include the revision number with any comments.</para>
+ <email>bradfritz at users.sourceforge.net</email>.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Caveats</title>
+
+ <para>In August 2003, John Cussans reported that M-Systems firmware
+ version 5 and later is incompatible with the MTD drivers distributed
+ with Bering versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. The incompatibility was
+ indicated by the error message <literal>Sorry, we don't support
+ UnitSizeFactor of != 1 yet.</literal> The error was generated in
+ response to the command <command>insmod ntfl.o</command>. Preparing
+ the DoC with firmware versions 1.23 or 4.2 using M-Systems'
+ <command>DFORMAT</command> utility was reported to work around the
+ incompatibility.</para>
</section>
<section>
@@ -233,7 +249,8 @@
<title>Thanks to...</title>
<para>Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak for creating Bering, all the LEAF
- developers for their contributions, and Mike Noyes for his support of the
- LEAF project and great work to encourage continuous improvement.</para>
+ developers for their contributions, Mike Noyes for his support of the
+ LEAF project and great work to encourage continuous improvement, and
+ the contributors who have sent me updates and corrections.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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