mtd-utils in busybox

Alessandro Rubini rubini-list at gnudd.com
Fri Nov 28 17:16:16 UTC 2008


>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    7379     932    2440   10751    29ff /sbin/nandwrite
>>    8278     332      44    8654    21ce /sbin/flash_eraseall
>>   54203     640     464   55307    d80b /bin/cp
>> Hopefully it makes more clear why having 'cp' in busybox makes more sense
>> that adding nandwrite.

> I understand that, but my thought was more a matter of distribution,
> than of code/size-advatages:

Agreed (fwiw). My initramfs files would use busybox alone if it wasn't
for eraseall. I would have proposed a patch myself, if I had the time.

   rudo% strings bin/busybox | grep '^versio'
   version 1.9.1
   rudo% find bin -type f
   bin/busybox
   bin/devmem2
   bin/eraseall
   bin/gpio-mx21

/alessandro



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