From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www12.mailshell.com ([209.157.66.248] helo=mailshell.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with smtp (Exim 4.22 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1A49Xm-0005CM-80 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:43:14 +0100 From: Daniel Toussaint To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <200309291351.58512.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> References: <1064826976.29857.116.camel@host35> <200309291351.58512.david.goodenough@btconnect.com> Message-Id: <1064886137.32296.9.camel@host35> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 30 Sep 2003 09:42:17 +0800 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: raw nand on x86 - reference boards List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 > > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://rd.mailshell.com/lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/