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Subject: Re: FreeBSD NAND driver
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In message: <20071228230341.1d78aa91@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz>
            Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> writes:
: I'm working on porting FreeBSD to an embedded device that stores it's
: root file system on NAND flash.
: 
: I am looking for a copy of the NAND driver John Birrell wrote if anyone
: has it or can point me to it. A search only found references to the
: existence of the driver but no pointers to where to find it.

Timing Solutions updated this driver to work better on 5.3R.  However,
the driver did have a lot of specific code for the i586 board that
it was running on.  It might make a good base for work, but if you
don't have an Elan CPU, it will be a fair amount of work.

Warner