Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on a project that would benefit greatly from the MFS complex driver. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use this with one of the SD/MMC drivers I have available for my platform to implement the MFS BaseFlash object. My platform is an STM32F446RE, so I believe my options for SD/MMC drivers are MMC-SPI and SDIO.
Is it possible to use either of these drivers with the MFS complex driver?
MFS on top of MMC/SD drivers
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Re: MFS on top of MMC/SD drivers
Hi,
It would be possible but you would need to simulate a flat NOR flash on top of a block-based SD-MMC device and implement the flash interface. Wouldn't be easier to attach a SPI NOR flash?
In addition, you would need to enforce a 512 bytes alignment for MFS or write operations could be destructive in case of power loss.
Giovanni
It would be possible but you would need to simulate a flat NOR flash on top of a block-based SD-MMC device and implement the flash interface. Wouldn't be easier to attach a SPI NOR flash?
In addition, you would need to enforce a 512 bytes alignment for MFS or write operations could be destructive in case of power loss.
Giovanni
Re: MFS on top of MMC/SD drivers
Have a look at https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs - it might be a more straightforward alternative to implement if it does what you want.
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Re: MFS on top of MMC/SD drivers
Hello,
That's a good point. Mostly we wanted to try it on MMC/SD for ease of swapping out and checking during the development/testing phase of our project. I'll take a look at littlefs to see if it'll work for us. The goal is to have redundant checksum'd firmware images and configuration information for subsystems on a satellite project.
That's a good point. Mostly we wanted to try it on MMC/SD for ease of swapping out and checking during the development/testing phase of our project. I'll take a look at littlefs to see if it'll work for us. The goal is to have redundant checksum'd firmware images and configuration information for subsystems on a satellite project.