Re: [Yaffs] Query - Interface between YAFF and SD card ?

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Author: Charles Manning
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To: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Query - Interface between YAFF and SD card ?
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:26:28 Yogesh Gaur wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am new to this group and have just start to look the yaff code and docs,
> I have some of the basic doubts about the whole system on which Linux YAFF
> running.
>
> As last week Google phone has been launched with lot of fanfare, it has
> linux as it's OS, my doubt is if my phone is supporting the SD card (which
> it of course does) then how the linux able to read/write to the SD card as
> generally SD card have been formatted in the FAT filesystem (my assumption
> in thinking that most of the users would transfer the media files from
> their to the windows PC's).
>
> What is the interface in between the YAFF file system and the SD driver
> through which file system is able to detect the SD card and do
> corresponding operation of read/write?


I don't believe it is using YAFFS on the SD card. I would expect that FAT is
being used on the SD card and YAFFS in the internal flash.

-- CHarles