[RFC 0/3] mtd: bcm47xxnflash: adding support for new NANDs

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 02/23/2014 12:26 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> New Broadcom SoCs have NAND flashes attached & programmed in a totally different
> way. Instead of accessing them with help of ChipCommon core, they can be used
> directly.
> 
> To support them we can extend bcm47xxnflash in the way this patches implements.
> However almost nothing in the code will be shared between support for old and
> new devices.
> 
> How should we proceed? Implement it that way anyway? Or maybe writing a
> separated driver (bcm53xxnflash?) would be a better idea?
> 
Hi,

if this controller is completely different I would suggest writing a new
driver for that controller. Extending the existing driver would make if
just more complex.

Hauke