Large block NAND

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Mar 18 09:26:35 EST 2004


On Thursday 18 March 2004 15:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:11 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Be aware, that the available NAND aware filesystems must be changed too,
> > as they are not aware of pagesizes > 512 byte, but if IIRC  the datasheet
> > details it is possible to write 4  512 byte sub-pages to the device
> > without violating the specs. Anyway changes will be neccecary.
>
> JFFS2 shouldn't actually have any problem with arbitrary page sizes as
> long as they're a power of two.

Except for the oob handling, but thats only one function to adjust

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Thomas
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