list-newbie ... Have an Intel Flash E28F128 and want to ...

Hi

This may or may not be off topic ... just let me know.

I purchased a 3Com Audrey in the hopes to get Linux on it. I'm currently looking at LinuxBIOS (and other possibilities). It has a CFI Flash on it and am curious how to program the flash in-circuit.

In reading your How-To i noted the JFFS2 for embedded systems. I curious about the following:
1. In-circuit programming of CFI flashes .. is this feasible? does a utility already exist?
2. How do I get the JFFS2 and Linux on this device? ... maybe I need to read the How-TO a little more ...

Thanks in advance for your input
Robert Warner

A commonly used trick on StrongARM SA11x0 platforms is to program the flash from the CPU JTAG interface (JTAG is a debugging interface). The utility "jflash" exists for that, it bit-bangs the JTAG protocol on the parallel port. You can get it (for the Intel Assabet board) at ftp://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/people/nico/Assabet-Jflash-v1.2-1.tgz No idea if it will be useful for you.

Erik

J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department
of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031,  2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
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