any need for any MTD functionality on a desktop system?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sun Nov 12 17:45:34 UTC 2006


Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>> I never saw anything use MTD or JFFS2 outside of onboard flash
>> devices for embedded: no USB sticks or anything else AFAIK.
> 
> yes -- USB sticks appear as SCSI devices, last time i looked, right?

Yes, I was thinking about JFFS2 filesystem with USB.  I guess you could 
use MTD on a NOR flash BIOS for example but AFAIK nobody does.

> oh, i realize it doesn't hurt to build them as modules, but i'm doing
> a walkthrough of a kernel config and build for some folks later this
> week (latest "git pull" of kernel on FC6) and part of the discussion
> will be what parts of the kernel legitimately *need* to be there for a
> reasonably usable build.
> 
> i think i'll make that another post under another more general
> subject.

There is likely a metric ton of stuff you can throw out of the configure 
depending on what you actually need from the kernel.

-Andy




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