Re: JFFS, Compaq licensing

I have a problem...
Can you help me?

mfg

Gerald

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: George France <france_at_crl.dec.com>
An: 'Ross J. Reedstrom' <reedstrm_at_rice.edu>; handhelds_at_handhelds.org
<handhelds_at_handhelds.org>
Datum: Donnerstag, 16. November 2000 22:54
Betreff: RE: [Handhelds] JFFS, Compaq licensing

>Hello Ross,
>
>I call it that because it only happens when you have a file that tries to
>write to the last sector of flash. If you do a 3.75 MB file starting at
>0xc00000, then it works great, but if you try flashing a 1MB to 0xf00000 it
>fails. This problem does not occur on units with 32MB of flash. I hope to
>have a 16MB unit at CRL soon so that we can find the problem.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>
>--George
>
>George France, france_at_crl.dec.com
>Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation
>One Cambridgecenter MS: CRL
>Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
>Phone: (617) 551-7665
>FAX: (617) 551-7650
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ross J. Reedstrom [mailto:reedstrm_at_rice.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 12:32 PM
>> To: handhelds_at_handhelds.org
>> Subject: Re: [Handhelds] JFFS, Compaq licensing
>>
>>
>> Jamey -
>> Thanks for the update. The way George always calls it an 'off by one'
>> error led me to believe that it had a known cause, and only
>> lacked time
>> for fixing/testing/release.
>>
>> Ross
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:48:16AM -0500, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>> > Ross,
>> >
>> > We have not found the bug causing the lack of erasure of
>> the 0xc000 quadrant
>> > of 16MB flash parts. The same code never fails on the 32MB parts.
>> > Inspection of the code and datastructures yielded no
>> insight, and we have
>> > not had time to debug this further.
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Open source code is like a natural resource, it's the result
>> of providing
>> food and sunshine to programmers, and then staying out of their way.
>> [...] [It] is not going away because it has utility for both
>> the developers
>> and users independent of economic motivations. Jim Flynn,
>> Sunnyvale, Calif.
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