Patching only NAND specific stuff possible?

Wed May 11 17:46:57 EDT 2005

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:25 +0200, Marcus Mikolaiczyk wrote:
> Considering the four Layers (jffs2,mtd,nand,hardware-drivers) it should
> be possible onloy to 'update' the nand and hardware-drivers stuff.
> Any objections to this?

No, as long as you do not ask questions, why it doesnt work. :)
The current nand driver needs the current mtd layer and JFFS2 from the
last century will not work with those.

> A secondary short question, if you don't mind.
> Where takes the 'addressing' of the NAND takes place (write Col,Row to ALE)?

nand_command(_lp) depending on the device type.

> On the Samsung K9F2G08... there are 5 Cycles for the address resolution
> I saw some NAND chips which only have 4 Address Cycles.

Thats handled by the nand driver depending on the chip size.

tglx