mtd和mtdblock的区别

mtd和mtdblock的区别

mtd是字符设备，mtdblock是块设备
可以看看dd命令的实现，在busybox里有
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/dev/mtd info.ecctype = -1; info.eccsize = 0; if (copy_to_user(argp, &info, sizeof(struct mtd_info_user))) return -EFAULT; break;。。。}而/dev/mtdblockN，是Nand Flash驱动中，驱动在用add_mtd_partitions()添加MTD设备分区，而生成的对应的块设备。根据以上内容，也就更加明白，为什么不能用nandwrite,flash_eraseall,flash_erase等工具去对/dev/mtdblockN去操作了。因为/dev/mtdblock中不包含对应的ioctl，不支持你这么操作。2. mtd char 设备的主设备号是90，而mtd block设备的主设备号是31：# ls /dev/mtd? -l crw-r----- 1 root root 90, 0 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd0crw-r----- 1 root root 90, 2 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd1crw-r----- 1 root root 90, 4 Jul 17 2009 /dev/mtd2crw-r----- 1 root root 90, 6 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd3crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 8 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd4crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 10 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd5crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 12 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd6crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 14 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd7crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 16 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd8crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90, 18 May 30 2007 /dev/mtd9# ls /dev/mtdblock? -lbrw-r----- 1 root root 31, 0 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock0brw-r----- 1 root root 31, 1 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock1brw-r----- 1 root root 31, 2 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock2brw-r----- 1 root root 31, 3 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock3brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 4 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock4brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 5 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock5brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 6 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock6brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 7 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock7brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 8 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock8brwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31, 9 May 30 2007 /dev/mtdblock9此设备号，定义在/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h中 ：#define MTD_CHAR_MAJOR 90#define MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR 313. 其中，mtd的块设备的大小，可以通过查看分区信息获得：# cat /proc/partitionsmajor minor #blocks name31 0 1024 mtdblock031 1 8192 mtdblock131 2 204800 mtdblock231 3 65536 mtdblock331 4 225280 mtdblock4上面中显示的块设备大小，是block的数目，每个block是1KB。而每个字符设备，其实就是对应着上面的每个块设备。即/dev/mtd0对应/dev/mtdblock0，其他以此类推。换句话说，mtdblockN的一些属性，也就是mtdN的属性，比如大小。4。对每个mtd字符设备的操作，比如利用nandwrite去对/dev/mtd0写数据，实际就是操作/dev/mtdblock0。而这些操作里面涉及到的偏移量offset，都指的是此mtd 分区内的偏移。比如向/dev/mtd1的offset为0的位置写入数据，实际操作的是物理偏移offset=/dev/mtd0的大小=1MB=0x100000。