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Subject: Re: mtd support for large NAND
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:11 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> Last I looked (2.6.23), mtd_info is limited by a u32 size field to 4Gbyte=
s of=20
> flash. That's no longer very large and is limiting some applications.
>=20
> Is anyone working on this?

Yeah, the problem is known, but nobody is working on the fix AFAIK.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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