Flash I/O not enabled in MSR_DIVIL_BALL_OPTS

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Dec 5 16:05:35 EST 2009


On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 17:47 +0000, Rick van Rein wrote:
> David,
> 
> > If you have the NAND hardware connected, then surely your firmware ought
> > to be setting the MSRs appropriately?
> 
> I broken open a bit more hardware and found an ATA-to-flash interface
> between companion chip and flashes.  Sigh, instead of 100 MB/s I am now
> limited to 2.4 MB/s and cannot employ this wonderful direct-NAND-stuff.

The NAND controller on the Geode is only capable of about 3.5MiB/s
anyway. There's a reason we put a new NAND flash controller on OLPC.

-- 
dwmw2




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