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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Updegraff <dave@cray.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Large block NAND
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:57:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079971069.16509.125.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405F0840.3030503@cray.com>

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:37 -0600, David Updegraff wrote:
> I am looking at the existing 'drivers' in drivers/mtd/nand; am a bit 
> baffled; need help understanding approach.
> 
> The files (spia, autcpu12..) are apparently drivers for particular NAND 
> chips, 

They're not. They're drivers for particular ways wiring up a NAND chip. 

The code in nand.c handles all currently-supported (i.e 8-bit, 256- or
512-byte per page) NAND chips, and uses access functions provided by the
board-specific 'wiring' driver to waggle the control lines, etc.



> but it appears to me that they all call nand_scan in nand.c, 
> which in turn just looks for ids enumerated in nand_ids.h.  Does this 
> not make it necessary to hand-tune which driver you want to compile with 
> nand.c instead of having the drivers themselves control with nand chip 
> they know how to drive -- based on what ID one finds?  Or is the 
> thinking that the quirks of each little embedded gadget to too wierd 
> anyway; so must hand-tune?
> 
> -dbu.
> 
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-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18 12:14 Large block NAND llandre
2004-03-18 13:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-03-18 14:16   ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-18 14:26     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-03-18 14:52   ` llandre
2004-03-18 14:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-03-18 14:59     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-22 15:37       ` David Updegraff
2004-03-22 15:57         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-03-18 18:32     ` David Updegraff
2004-03-19  8:21       ` llandre

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