From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13JcQl-0006Qb-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:50:03 +0100 Received: from dns.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3] helo=pasanda.cygnus.co.uk) by infradead.org with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13JcQk-0006QP-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:50:02 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <20000727135944.F27468@one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20000727135944.F27468@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Matthew Dharm Cc: Kernel Developer List , Linux USB Storage List , mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: SmartMedia translation layer? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:49:30 +0100 Message-ID: <13630.965137770@cygnus.co.uk> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net said: > To do this, we need to have code which can take care of this > re-mapping system. We're wondering if anyone out there has such code > allready (perhaps even in use with Linux). > If not, we're prepared to write our own management system... but if > there is existing code out there we can leverage, it would be really > nice. We have a couple of translation layers for flash devices, which do a similar kind of remapping to emulate a block device. I doubt they're the same, and in some places they're patented and may only be used on certain hardware. See drivers/mtd/nftl.c and drivers/mtd/ftl.c for more details. -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org