jffs2 and suggestions

hi all,

i have actually a custom board with Coldfire MCF5307, a 4MB flash and 16MB of sdram.

Actually linux start from a ROMFS located in the flash just after the kernel. So, bootloader load "image.bin" (kernel+romfs) into ram and execute it.

It works fine, but i cannot save anything as non-volatile.

So my idea is to create a jffs2 partition on the last megabyte of the flash, to store some sensible data.

Reading some docs, seems i have to create a jffs2 partition image file from a folder on disk. This is clear. What i don't know is that if i save then this image file on last megabyte of the flash, MTD driver is able to see it automatically at boot.

Is it a right approach ?
Anyone can suggest some links that help on how to do this better ?

regards,
angelo

If you pass correct MTD information, you can save kernel image at any position.

hi nini09,

many thanks, si specified a partition table in the fw, and i moved forward, now partitions are seen correctly from MTD:

Creating 3 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash":
0x000000000000-0x000000010000 : "Colilo (64K)"
mtd: Giving out device 0 to Colilo (64K)
0x000000010000-0x000000310000 : "Kernel+ROMfs (3072K)"
mtd: Giving out device 1 to Kernel+ROMfs (3072K)
0x000000310000-0x000000400000 : "JFFS2 (960K)"
mtd: Giving out device 2 to JFFS2 (960K)
physmap platform flash device: 00400000 at ffc00000

Then, from here, i created from a pc a jffs2 fs, creating the image file from a folder:

sudo mkfs.jffs2 -r flash -e 64 -o rootfs.jffs2

And written this image in the 960K partition.

But when i try to mount it i get the following error

/ # mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /media
MTDSB: lookup_bdev() returned 0
MTDSB: New superblock for device 2 ("JFFS2 (960K)")
jffs2: Flash size not aligned to erasesize, reducing to 0KiB
jffs2: Too few erase blocks (0)
mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock2 on /media failed: Invalid argument

any help is appreciated.

thanks
angelo

Different flash chip has different erase block size. Find out a correct value for your chip. The error message complain your erase block size is wrong.