Different nand interface

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:33 -0700, Alice Hennessy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need some advice on how to support a board that has a hardware state
> machine that creates a parallel bus style interface to the NAND chip. 
> It is totally different from the standard 8 IO signal controls.   It
> can do write_byte and read_byte put requires the offset into the flash
> as a parameter.    nand.c is fairly modular, allowing several
> functions to be coded in the hardware file but there is no current
> method of passing an offset into, say, read_byte and write_byte unless
> the nand_chip priv field
> can be used (via mtd->priv).   Do you think the standard nand.c can be
> used in this case or should I create a specific one for this board?

S'difficult to say without knowing more details of the hardware in
question. What does it _do_ with the address lines in question? Are you
at least looking at the current code which has read_buf() functions?

Even the DiskOnChip isn't this bizarre :)

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