* Re: SmartMedia translation layer?
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@ 2000-08-01 13:49 ` David Woodhouse
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From: David Woodhouse @ 2000-08-01 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Dharm; +Cc: Kernel Developer List, Linux USB Storage List, mtd
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.
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