Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:17:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@incunabulum.net Cc: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linksys NSLU2 attempt Message-ID: <20080528.091703.514334694.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <483D756B.50403@incunabulum.net> References: <483CE242.3080500@incunabulum.net> <20080528.080542.-1749738850.imp@bsdimp.com> <483D756B.50403@incunabulum.net>
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Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> writes:
: 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? :-)
Sure... lemme generate some diffs...
: > : 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.
Definitely...
Warner
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