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Subject: Re: FreeBSD NAND driver
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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
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Olivier Gautherot
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