[Cbe-oss-dev] [FYI 24/27] ps3: storage driver

[Geoff Levand]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The PS3 storage driver is used for HD, CD/DVD/BD, and 4 MiB of internal flash.
> 
> Ah, ok. There may be some value in representing the flash part as MTD
> instead of a raw block device then. That should at least handle writes
> more efficiently than your current read-modify-write cycle.

Do you mean just in terms of speed, or also static memory usage?  If it is
considerable re-work to set this up as MTD, I don't know if there will be
much advantage just for improving write speed since it will be a rare occasion
for the user to reprogram the bootloader.  What do you think?

-Geoff