Samsung S3 Installation manual

Installation Manual for UBI

S3C6410

May 09, 2008

(Preliminary) REV 1.00

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S3C6410 INSTALLATION MANUAL UBI(UNSORTED BLOCK IMAGE) V1.0

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S3C6410 INSTALLATION MANUAL UBI(UNSORTED BLOCK IMAGES) V1.0

Revision No

1.00

Revision History

Description of Change Refer to

- Master Copy -

NOTE:

Revised parts are written in blue.

Author(s)

Jongpill Lee

Date

May 09, 2008



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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................... 6

1.1 P

URPOSE

......................................................................................................................................................................6

1.2 O

VERVIEW

....................................................................................................................................................................6

2 KERNEL COMPILATION ...................................................................................................................... 7

2.1 R

OOT FILE

S

YSTEM

.....................................................................................................................................................7

2.2 K

ERNEL

C

OMPILE

........................................................................................................................................................7

3 TEST ..................................................................................................................................................... 12

3.1 D

OWNLOAD

“

UBI

.

KO

”

............................................................................................................................................ 12

3.2 L

OAD

UBI M

ODULE

................................................................................................................................................ 12

3.3 C

REATE

UBI V

OLUME

............................................................................................................................................. 13

3.4 M

OUNT JFFS

2 .......................................................................................................................................................... 14



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Figures

FIGURE 1 UBI/MTD I

NTEGRATION

....................................................................................................................... 6

FIGURE 2 D

EVICE

D

RIVERS

................................................................................................................................... 8

FIGURE 3 M

EMORY

T

ECHNOLOGY

D

EVICES

......................................................................................................... 8

FIGURE 4 UBI – U

NSORTED

B

LOCK

I

MAGES

......................................................................................................... 9

FIGURE 5 E

NABLE

UBI ......................................................................................................................................... 9

FIGURE 6 S

ELECT

“E

MULATE

MTD D

EVICES

” .................................................................................................... 10

FIGURE 7 S

AVING

N

EW

K

ERNEL CONFIGURATION

.............................................................................................. 10



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1 Introduction

1.1

Purpose

Ubi is general purpose flash management layer which has similar functionality as the Logical

Volume Manager. The basic idea is that the UBI layer provides the management for multiple logical volumes, which can contain either static data or dynamic contents e.g. file systems.

This guide will explain the initial steps for Installing UBI(Unsorted Block Image) and how to compile

Linux Kernel.

1.2

Overview

UBI Supports as follows:

• Bad Block Management

• Wear leveling across the device(s)

• Logical to Physical block mapping

• Volume information storage

• Device information

FIGURE 1 UBI/MTD Integration



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2 Kernel Compilation

2.1

Root file System

Make sure you have 2.6 compliant versions of

insmod, rmmod,

and

lsmod

. At least you have 2.6 compliant versions of

insmod

.

2.2

Kernel Compile

In this chapter, you will understand the initial steps for Installing S3C BSP on Linux operating system.

Kernel source is compressed by the name of “s3c-linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2”. Extract this bz2 file by executing the following command. After extracting the kernel tarball file “s3c-linux-2.6.21” directory will be generated. Go to “s3c-linux-2.6.21” directory and edit “.cross_compile” file.

[root@localhost test]#

tar jxvf s3c-linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2

[root@localhost test]#

cd s3c-linux-2.6.21

[root@localhost s3c-linux-2.6.21]#

vi .cross_compile

Here edit your cross compiler path on first line depending on your environment, in our case cross compiler path is “/usr/local/arm/release-4.0.3/bin/arm-linux-”.

You can load default-configuration-file that is composed with values optimized to target board. In

Kernel, default-configuration-files are located in “s3c-linux-2.6.21” directory.

Load configuration file executing following command. Configuration file can be found at the directory of “s3c-linux-2.6.21/arch/arm/configs/”.

You should use this board-specific default configuration file for the SMDK board you are working on.

For SMDK6410 board,


make smdk6410mtd_defconfig

Then, type as follows:


make menuconfig



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Select ‘Device Drivers’ from the ‘Linux Kernel Configuration’.

FIGURE 2 Device Drivers

Select ‘Memory Technology Devices(MTD)’

FIGURE 3 Memory Technology Devices



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Select ‘UBI – Unsorted block images’

FIGURE 4 UBI – Unsorted Block Images

Select ‘Enable UBI’ to Module Type

FIGURE 5 Enable UBI



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Select “Emulate MTD devices”

FIGURE 6 Select “Emulate MTD Devices”

Finally select

‘Exit’

and then

‘Yes’

to save your new kernel configuration.

FIGURE 7 Saving New Kernel configuration



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Execute the following commands on your host PC, the Kernel image will be created in “s3c-linux-

2.6.21/arch/arm/boot/” directory by the name of “zImage”. Also, UBI Module will be created in

“s3c-linux-2.6.21/drivers/mtd/ubi/”directory by the name of “ubi.ko”.


make



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3 Test

In this Chapter, you will understand how to test UBI in you system.

3.1

Download “ubi.ko”

First, you have to download “ubi.ko” device module file that is created by make command. You can this device module in “linux/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.ko”.

3.2

Load UBI Module

Next, Insert UBI Module(ubi.ko) which is download from your host with insmod command. Input command as following.

[root@Samsung tmp]# insmod ubi.ko mtd=3

In this command, “mtd=3” is a MTD partition what you want to create UBI Volume. If you want to create UBI volume in another MTD partition, input number of partition. If you success insert UBI module(ubi.ko), you can see ubi information.



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3.3

Create UBI Volume

Now, Make a UBI Volume in MTD partition. First of all, make “sysfs” directory and mount sysfs to sysfs directory.

[root@Samsung tmp]# mount sysfs sysfs ./sysfs

[root@Samsung tmp]# mount -t sysfs sysfs ./sysfs

You need ubimkvol application which is to make ubi volume. Download ubimkvol application. And

Excute ubimkvol as following command.

[root@Samsung tmp]# ./ubimkvol -s 10245780 -N Storage -d 0

This Command is make UBI Volume in MTD partition. Volume size is 10245780 bytes and Volume name is “Storage” and device node is “ubi0”. If you want to know other option, you can see by input command “./ubimkvol –h”.

And, you want to confirm result, you can see proc file system.



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3.4

Mount jffs2

Finally, you want to read and write in UBI Volume, system is mounted temporary directory to

/dev/mtdblock4.



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