[linuxdc-dev] VMU Flash driver

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

There is now a working/available for testing VMU driver in the linuxdc CVS. It 
supports reads and writes. (see /drivers/mtd/maps in the CVS).

To test it I suggest you compile the kernel with the char and ccahed block mtd 
devices.

Reads are cached and so are fast. Writes are very slow at present - as a full 
512 byte read is done for every byte written. I will fix that in due course.

The driver also outputs a lot of status messages at the moment - I would 
particularly welcome anybody with strange flash devices (the camera? Come on, 
somebody's got to have it!) and odd sizes telling me if they get anything 
different from devices with 1 partition, a write count of 4, a read count of 
1 and a block size of 512 bytes.

Please let me know of any problems you have asap. Otherwise, remember when you 
are writing that it is very easy to simply trash the existing data on your 
VMU. I have no idea if the DC will then fix that.

You use this under the terms of the GPL and that means no warranty! You have 
been warned.

Adrian