Problems with NAND support

[James, Laura]

We're going to be working on a new board with large amounts of NAND flash in
the immediate future. It would seem to be a much better idea to go with
jffs2 than jffs.  What will we need to do to get it working? 

Any pointers you can give will be very much appreciated.

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2 at infradead.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:26 AM
> To: juan at hispafuentes.com
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with NAND support 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> juan at hispafuentes.com said:
> >  We only can get a kernel image if we don't enable NAND device
> > support.  The problem is that we really need it. Do you know why? 
> 
> If you're using raw NAND chips you'll need a tiny board-specific glue 
> driver like spia.c to let the generic nand code know how to 
> access the 
> chips.
> 
> You can't use FTL on it because that's for NOR flash. You 
> can't use NFTL 
> because that requires the DiskOnChip ECC hardware, and in 
> many places both 
> suffer from patent problems.
> 
> You can use JFFS on it, but JFFS2 hasn't yet been made to 
> deal with NAND 
> flash - I'm happy to give you pointers if you want to fix that.
> 
> I'd also like to see someone write a SmartMedia-compatible 
> translation 
> layer driver - that ought to be fairly simple to do too.
> 
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