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On 03/06/2013 12:54 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
> 
> This is very old cruft with all the users probably dead. Newer DoC devices use
> inftl.



Actually the "newest" devices (circa 2005) use yet another incarnation called
saftl.  I didn't bother trying to support it in the docg4 driver.  IIRC, it
stands for "serial-access flash translation layer", which I think refers to the
fact that pages within a block must be written in sequence.

Thanks,
Mike