Subject: Re: NAND flash
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Jachym Holecek <freza@dspfpga.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 02/18/2006 01:01:03
> It has 128MB of flash memory.  This is accessible from Linux and eCos, but not
> from NetBSD.
> 
> I'm a bit of a newbie at kernel hackery of this sort, but hey, I've got the
> thing booting and one of the two ethernet controllers probing, and I am
> feeling optimistic; also, I may be able to get someone to pay me to make this
> work.  
> 
> So, first obvious question:  Is anyone already doing this?

No, but it would be great to see them supported. I'd like
to make use of flash chips on ${dayjob} boards. Drivers
should be the easy part, more trouble is which filesystem
to run if you want rw access. I may be rather off the track
here, but would UDF be a good candidate?

	-- Jachym