From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar@bravegnu.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] NAND: nandsim sector-wise allocation
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:44:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160117074.13696.33.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17701.14724.377713.929566@vaishnavi.localdomain>
Hello Vijay,
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:27 +0530, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> The present nandsim allocates memory equal to the size of the NAND
> flash during initialization in one shot. Thus it is impossible to
> simulate a 256MB NAND flash on a system with 128MB RAM.
Right, I've been bearing a plan to fix this since long, I was even
thinking to re-implement it and make it able to work with HDD to emulate
really huge NANDs. But, time, time ...
> For most testing purposes, only a part of the the NAND memory
> allocated in the simulator is used. This patch set modifies the
> simulator so as to allocate a NAND page when it is written to, and
> deallocates the page when it is erased. With this it is possible to
> simulate large NAND flash devices on computers with less RAM.
Well, the idea sounds nice.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-06 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 16:57 [PATCH 0/2] NAND: nandsim sector-wise allocation Vijay Kumar
2006-10-05 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Vijay Kumar
2006-10-06 6:49 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-10-08 5:38 ` Vijay Kumar
2006-10-05 17:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Vijay Kumar
2006-10-06 7:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-10-08 5:50 ` Vijay Kumar
2006-10-06 6:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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