In message 159C486347C8D3119B1D005004A4694002F4AD09@OLIVE you wrote:
JFFS2 and we are encountering problems similar to the problem posted by Vitali Martin on 7-22-2003. (See link below.)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2814642&forum_id=...
Not entirely sure if this was resolved because the thread just died without the real answer.
This is what I know, too.
bash-2.05# cp rImage /mnt bash-2.05# cd /mnt/ bash-2.05# ls -l total 4997 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5116534 Dec 31 1969 rImage bash-2.05# diff rImage /mnt/rImage
Can you please try a umount, reboot, mount here, and then run a "cmp rImage /mnt/rImage" ?
[diff is not really good for binary images.]
I noticed that u-boot 0.4.0 are packing the JFFS2 data structures and in the Denx PPC 2.4.4 kernel it is not using the __attribute__((packed)) at all in the same data structures.
This is probably the explanation for the problems.
I know one post with similar problems said that going to the 2.4.19pre1 fixed his problem. I know the mtd tools in the Denx PPC kernel is old but trying to update the Denx kernel to use the current MTD kernel, fs, utilities is not trivial.
You can try using our linuxppc_2_4_devel kernel tree.
Is there someone there who knows how to resolve this problem? I'm sure that Wolfgang will not put a distribution out there if it is not working. So
Well, as you mentioned before, the linux-2.4(.4) kernel tree is old, and so is the included MTD (and thus JFFS2) code. It seemes there were changes to the JFFS2 code since that broke compatibility. There is little you can do about this.
there are incompatibilities between Denx PPC kernel 2.4.4 and U-boot 0.4.0. Should we just bite the bullet and go to the current linux distribution?
We are in a crunch time right now thus, any help is greatly appreciated.
Try our linuxppc_2_4_devel kernel tree.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk