[PATCH v4] MTD: nand: add support for diskonchip G4 nand flash device

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 16:08:16 EST 2012


On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:05 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote:
> This patch adds a driver for the M-Sys / Sandisk diskonchip G4 nand flash found
> in various smartphones and PDAs, among them the Palm Treo680, HTC Prophet and
> Wizard, Toshiba Portege G900, Asus P526, and O2 XDA Zinc.  It was tested on the
> Treo 680, but should work generically.
> 
> Since v3, this patch adds power management functions, a scan of the factory bad
> block table during initialization, several fixes, and more extensive testing.
> Also, the platform data header file, which only contained partitioning
> information, was removed.  Command-line partitioning can be used, at least until
> an mtd parser is written for the saftl format with which these chips are
> shipped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com>

Hopefully this gets some review, Reobert, may be? You have been in the
same boat lately (delays because of lack of review).

This is 3.4 material anyway, so I am waiting when 3.3 merge window
closes - then I will be able to take this to the l2 tree.

Thanks!

Artem.




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