large page NAND

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 07:57 -0600, David Updegraff wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> There was a post or two a few months ago about support for larger 
> (1,2,?,K) pagesize and the extra 2 bytes of config available in newer 
> NAND chips..  And a cautionary about asking for advice before 
> proceeding. Is there followup/progress on that front that I have missed? 
> We are looking into these needs for some Samsung 2k-page NANDs.

Thomas and I haven't been forced to deal with these flashes and hence
haven't given it much thought. Nobody else seems to be hugely prolific.

> Advice & recommended directions appreciated.

Try it. The existing code shouldn't be _too_ hard to adjust. Join #mtd
on irc.freenode.net and heckle Thomas and I about how you want the
generic NAND interfaces changed.

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dwmw2