Re: [ECOS] devfs cyg_io_flash

[Moussa Ba <mba at embedded-zone dot com>]

I realized after sending the email, however, I should be able to do an 
open("/dev/flash1",O_WRONLY); and use the standard file io operation on 
the flash? I am referring to Chapter 29 of the ecos ref manual

Moussa


 Chapter 29. FLASH I/O devices

*Table of Contents*
Overview and CDL Configuration 
<http://ecoscentric.com/ecospro/doc/html/ref/ecos-flash-iodevice.html#ECOS-FLASH-IODEVICE-OVERVIEW-CONFIG>
Using FLASH I/O devices 
<http://ecoscentric.com/ecospro/doc/html/ref/ecos-flash-iodevice-usage.html>

It can be useful to be able to access FLASH devices using the generic 
I/O infrastructure found in |CYGPKG_IO|, and the generic FLASH layer 
provides an optional ability to do so. This allows the use of functions 
like |cyg_io_lookup()|, |cyg_io_read()|, |cyg_io_write()| etc.

Additionally it means that, courtesy of the “devfs” pseudo-filesystem in 
the file I/O layer (|CYGPKG_IO_FILEIO|), functions like |open()|, 
|read()|, |write()| etc. can even be used directly on the FLASH devices.



Nick Garnett wrote:
> "Moussa A. Ba" <mba@embedded-zone.com> writes:
>
>   
> > I am able to successfully read and write from y ATMEL dataflash using
> > cyg_io_read cyg_io_program.... I am attempting to use the devfs from
> > CYGPKG_IO_FILEIO but I am encountering some difficulty.  I have
> > selected the option to provide a block device from the flash driver
> > such that my device is hat /dev/flash1
> > In my test code I do the following
> >
> > mount("/dev/flash1","/","devfs");
> > createfile("/foo",200);
> > checkfile("/foo");
> >
> > When I run this I get :
> >
> > <INFO>: create file /foo size 200
> > <INFO>: open() returned -1 No such entity
> > <INFO>: write() returned -1 Bad file handle
> > <INFO>: write() returned -1 Bad file handle
> >
> >
> > I have not setup the MTAB entries statically as I assume that mount
> > would take care of it dynamically, am I missing something?
> >     
>
> devfs is no a proper filesystem, it merely maps device IO operations
> onto the standard file IO operations. It is mounted by default on
> /dev, it should not be mounted anywhere else.
>
> For flash, the only filesystem supported is JFF2.
>
>   


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