From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934133AbYDQJba (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:31:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763410AbYDQJL4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:11:56 -0400 Received: from web36701.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.35]:38805 "HELO web36701.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1763771AbYDQJLj (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:11:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=qhfwmu3ZiO+ZDW/mtH5qwT4R6JQO6psVjPq8XWWnsTYBxoitI8H6tj7YCKjnp2lH+MZVvgzjvzRWwYL4DMD5yNEVDseDU4RbLbgWQeDneCIUMqjV0nSh3HKdaXlU8p952L9uPGKR6KMKy6hzZ8BAXWt3IL1SGZ0wZb/sXUmiEhQ=; X-YMail-OSG: x24cSxEVM1n8oDle9NkeTvsBdl4ejGcOZLrblRdaEukyfZRf3Gd2M0kMjx04aekKGzpvzRyDlqH1nNPbwqv4_l3r3O2qY1hHtNN2dVuvgBE7MShKxbPmCVwWyw-- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Dubov Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments To: Ben Dooks Cc: Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20080417090137.GB16284@fluff.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <257448.48285.qm@web36701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Ben Dooks wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:50:33AM -0700, Alex Dubov wrote: > > I've implemented, with generous help from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture > card > > media. Currently, only JMicron backend is available, but TI expressed some interest in this > too, > > so TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > > > > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the dumb flash chips, but they have their quirks that put > them > > aside as a separate media type. > > They're NAND chips, just with a standard ECC/block replacement > stratergy... why isn't this under drivers/mtd ? > They have nothing to do with JFFS or UBI (it's an interchange format). They require FTL. On the other hand, "SmartMedia reader" is a rather definite kind of animal that exists on its own. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ