flash !a questionof block-driver

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Sep 6 04:37:47 EST 2001


In message <200109050504.NAA24541 at isdn.iscas.ac.cn> you wrote:
>
> The ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/CDK.tar.gz sources also include a
> flash translation layer (ftl.c) so flash can be used as a read/write

This is old, no: ancient stuff. Please forget that you ever saw it ;-)

> I have Intel 28F320J5(4MBytes, 8bit) flash memory!
> where can I found it if you know,and can I use my intel flash memory for your flash device
> driver if you have driver!

A character device driver is included with our sources, see for instance
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/linux-2.4.4-2001-07-23.tar.bz2

The standard solution is to use MTD, which is part of recent kernels, too.

Wolfgang Denk

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