Re: raw nand on x86 - reference boards

[Daniel Toussaint <daniel@dmhome.net>]

Indeed, as far as I can tell Compulab are really one of the few who have
this kind of nand flash implementation on an "off the shelf" SBC. I
briefly looked at their manuals/drivers, and came to the same conclusion
as you have: it may take some reverse engineering skills or "good
contacts" to get mtd to work on their board.
I think may I'll try to get a sample anyways, even so it won't be
suitable as a "reference board", it will certainly be fun to try and get
it to work. ... 

Thanks, 

Daniel


On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:51, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 10:16, Daniel Toussaint wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can find an x86 based sbc with nand chips on
> > board(NOT implemented as ide flash disk) OR maybe an ISA/pci add-on card
> > of some sort ? I need it to do a proof of concept , write some drivers
> > and a bootloader (x86 legacy bios extension)  ....
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> How about the Compulab boards.  They come with both NOR and NAND
> flash on the x86CORE boards.  Unfortunately there is no MTD driver for 
> them, and while there is Linux support, it comes as part binary only.
> 
> From what I can see there is not enough formal documentation to 
> write a driver, but there are odd bits of information which someone
> knowledgable about with the MTD driver might be able to interpret
> into a real driver.  You would be doing the Compulab users a favor
> if you built such a driver.
> 
> There do also appear to be drivers for two of the AMD Elan SC520
> reference boards, but at least one seems to have lots of comments
> in it saying that handling it is a kludge.  The Compulab 586CORE
> is Elan SC520 based.
> 
> Regards
> 
> David
> 
> 
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