In message <3D540B52.8080709 at redswitch.com> you wrote: > To enable MTD on a board, do we still need /dev/flash? In other words,
No, this is not needed for MTD. It's an alternative interface to access flash memory; we mostly keep it for compatibility with older projects, and because it provides some nice features like allowing to mmap() the flash (RO). > is there any relationship between /dev/flash and MTD? I found that only > on Denx distribution of 2.4.4 there is such a device '/dev/flash'. Thanks. These are two independend solutions to the task of providing access to flash memory; MTD is superior when you also need a block device interface. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*". - Linus Torvalds in <3itc77$9lj at ninurta.fer.uni-lj.si> ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
