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Subject: Re: Linksys NSLU2 attempt
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : Can you point at this stuff? I had a look in freebsd-imp and arm but 
> : didn't see anything that jumped out at me.
>
> Right, they are in the p4 tree on my laptop right now...
>   

Care to share? :-)

> : It would be very cool to get stuff up on this NSLU2 because then I can 
> : start to think about things like MTD, flash, etc.
>
> MTD and flash are the same thing.  And we have a driver for them in
> the tree now, but I've not tried to write a bridge drive for the
> xscale.
>   

I see there are already some drivers for low level access to the whole 
flash device.

The distinction: I was referring to the Linux model for flash 
partitioning; I'm thinking GEOM is the way to go here. It would be good 
to have MTD support so FreeBSD can be dropped on top of existing devices 
which have supported Linux.