mtd support for large NAND

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 12 October 2007 16:36:09 +0800, falls huang wrote:
> 
>   How can I simulate a large nandflash(>4G) in linux PC ? I want to
> take a look at it, but I don't have any develop-board that has 4G

Something like this would work:

$ truncate 5GiB foo
$ qemu -s -no-kqemu -hda rootfs -hdb foo -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage \
       -append "ro root=/dev/hda block2mtd.block2mtd=/dev/hdb"

Instead of truncate you can also use dd:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1 seek=5368709119

Jörn

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