Recently, Handheld devices are more and more popular. Most of them aim at the low price, small size, high computing power, and powerful functionalities. Therefore, the need for embedded operating systems in the market is absolutely vital. There are many embedded systems in the market, but embedded Linux has some advantages to be outstanding and widely accepted. For example, it has no proprietary problem and high portability, and is comparatively easy to be reconstructed and to develop new applications. Best of them all, it is open source software.
Embedded systems are usually diskless systems. In order to keep permanent data in embedded Linux, using flash disk as its disk system is a widely adapted strategy. We use MTD (Memory Technology Devices) system to emulate flash memory as flash disk mounted into Linux virtual file system. This allows accessing flash memory with standard I/O operations without any extra effort. MTD system contains, ¡§user¡¨ and driver¡¨, two different modules. In driver modules, we use CFI (Common Flash Interface) to probe the flash chip and then partition it, while we use MTD BLOCK to emulate the flash partitions as block devices in user modules, and then mount them into Linux¡¦s virtual file system with JFFS2 (Journaling Flash File System version 2) type, which is a file system type specifically designed for flash devices according to the features of flash devices.
The purpose of this thesis is to use MTD system to emulate Am29LV320DB flash chip as a flash disk in embedded Linux running on an ARM-based developing board, SMDK2410, designed by Samsung. I hope this porting can help the development of other advanced applications and provide an empirical platform for the research of embedded systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0602104-164645 |
| Date | 02 June 2004 |
| Creators | Chang, Yuan-Hao |
| Contributors | Chun-Hung Richard Lin, Jain-shing Liu, Ming-chao Chiang, Yun-Nan Chang, Hsiao-kuang Wu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0602104-164645 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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