[PATCH] NAND I/O instruction support

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at yandex.ru
Tue Apr 5 12:22:26 EDT 2005



William J Beksi wrote:
> This patch is to implement reading and writing nand flash by I/O 
> instructions. I have only been able to test on the x86 architecture.
> 
> Questions, comments, criticisms are welcome.
Why didn't you use request_region()/release_region() to allocate IO ports?

I wonder, for what do you need this? Shouldn't you redefine 
nand_read_byte() and the like *in your driver* instead.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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