If you do find some flash drivers for NetBSD I would be interested.
My experience with embedded software flash file system is that they are not very reliable.
I much prefer using a dedicated chip for embedded file services.
Disk on a chip are a good inexpensive solution (http://www.m-sys.com/)
They are supported by LINUX now...
If you are talking about volume shipment then putting your own flash disk controller on board could be a solution.
On a higher end system you could use a PC card with a flash disk.
Serge.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-embed-owner%netbsd.org@localhost
> [mailto:tech-embed-owner%netbsd.org@localhost]On
> Behalf Of Tonny Tzeng
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:15 PM
> To: Unice, Kyle; tech-embed%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: NetBSD File Systems
>
>
> Dear Kyle,
>
> Though I'm porting Linux to our embedded board now, I am interested
> in the job of porting NetBSD also, so I'd like to know how
> much memories
> (ROM and RAM) needed by the NetBSD kernel in your embedded
> application, could you please share your experiences with me? TIA.
>
> Best Regards,
> Tonny
>
> [snip]
> > I have gotten to the point of having NetBSD trying to mount
> a file system
> on
> > our little embedded system. The system has FLASH and RAM
> but not much
> else.
> > What is the current thought on file systems inside these
> types of systems?
> > Does one allocat a piece of flash and format it as an ffs
> file system? If
> > so, is there a set of Flash chip drivers somewhere for NetBSD?
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Kyle
> >
> > W. Kyle Unice
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