[PATCH/RFC] MTD: Striping layer core

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Mon Apr 3 09:44:15 EDT 2006


On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Vitaly Wool wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > IMHO striping NOR and NAND together simply makes no sense.  NOR and NAND are
> > fundamentally different things when it comes to writing to them, and apart
> > from evaluation boards where every possible peripheral can be found you
> > rarely will find both NOR and NAND in the same real life design.
> >   
> Oh really? What about MP3 player-oriented design with NAND flash as a main
> storage and NOR flash for kernel/userspace XIP etc?

You just demonstrated above why you'd never stripe those.  ;-)


Nicolas




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