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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:42:11 -0300
From:      "Olivier Gautherot" <olivier@gautherot.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, andrew@fubar.geek.nz,  freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD NAND driver
Message-ID:  <dcfb161c0712280842j354b9b2ev3fc17b6e1398d65a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071228.090357.1649771318.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20071228230341.1d78aa91@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz> <20071228.090357.1649771318.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On 12/28/07, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I think whatever the solution is, there will be a fair amount of
work anyway due to the type of bus - whether I/O based or
memory-mapped.

What devices do you plan to support?

Cheers
-- 
Olivier Gautherot
olivier@gautherot.net
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