Supported flash memory

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jan 5 12:03:24 EST 2001


kenneth.johansson at inn.ericsson.se said:
>  Well with SRAM you can intercange any data pin with another data pin
> and likewise with the adress bus and nothing would notice. Doing this
> with ROM or FLASH makes things quite interesting. This would mean that
> anything trying to program the device has to do translation.

For address lines, this is fixed up by the 'map' driver. For data lines it's
a little more annoying. But include/linux/cfi_endian.h could theoretically
at least do any form of swapping you desire.


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dwmw2




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