[PATCH] NAND Flash support for Intel IXP4xx platform

[Lennert Buytenhek]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:53:41PM +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote:

> >I wonder how much sense it makes to call this mtd driver "the
> >ixp4xx NAND flash driver" if there's hardly anything ixp4xx-specific
> >in it.
> >
> >For that matter, I wonder how much sense it makes to submit a
> >separate NAND driver for every ARM SoC.  For NOR flashes we have
> >physmap, we should have something similar for NAND.
> 
> It won't do for all the cases, but for the drivers where only cmd_ctrl
> differs that might really make sense.

Yes, exactly.  For a unified NAND driver, you can just assume that the
data register will be memory-mapped.  This is probably true in 99% of
the cases.  In cases where this isn't true, people can still write their
own driver.