On Monday 07 May 2007 09:06, Michael Sanfilippo wrote:
> My goal is to get YAFFS2 running on a custom built board
> with an EP9302 and a 64MB NAND FLASH chip as the root file system for the
> Linux 2.6 Kernel.
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> To familiarize myself with this file system I would like to
> compile it as an application on a machine running RedHat Linux. Although,
> when I try to build I get a MTD module error. On the Alpha1 website I found
> information instructing me to “hacking” the Makefile to exclude MTD
> support. Unfortunately this information seems to be for the original YAFFS,
> and does not work for YAFFS2. In fact, most of the support documents I find
> pertain to the original YAFFS.


The easiest way to run YAFFS as an application is to use it with a file 
simulating NAND. This is what you get if you compile and run the contents of 
yaffs2/direct

Running yaffs as an applicaion is somewhat different to running it in the 
kernel since the interfacing is different.
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> Is there up to date documentation available for YAFFS2?
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> I would appreciate any information on building YAFFS2 as an
> application and/or getting it to run as my root file
> system.Thanks,Mikemike_sanfil@msn.com
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