[oe] PATCH: make h2200-bootloader load & depend on mtdblock

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Jul 24 13:23:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:04 +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Yes, its standard practise to RRECOMMEND kernel modules since if they're
> > built into the kernel you get build failures otherwise. The RRECOMMEND
> > is a standard approach and well tested.
> 
> Apart from this discussion, sorry to interrupt, but does mtdchar
> 9related to mtdblock I guess) actually work?
> On my H2200('s) it fails to properly flash a kernel.
> It doesn't matter much now because we boot from SD, but nevertheless it
> is strange.
> The mtd folks refuse to help me when I repeatedly queried them.

Yes, mtdchar usually works. It may not do exactly what you expect though
as its a bit different from a normal character device.

Cheers,

Richard







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