From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
To: Venkat Raghu <venkatraghu2002@yahoo.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: newbie
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:04:25 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020918040819.D4EEF4388@tiger.actrix.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020918034458.23918.qmail@web40004.mail.yahoo.com>
It sounds to me like you need to first understand what flash memory is. I
don't know if there is a faq that describes this.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:44, Venkat Raghu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any pointers to documents describing the basics
> of mtd drivers. I would like know how it works, what
> are the operations. Whats the reason behind erase
> operation etc.
To answer that one question. Flash memory cannot just be reprogrammed, in
many/most instances you first need to erase the section of flash before you
can reprogram it. All the limitations are far too complex to answer in an
email like this though.
-- Charles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 4:08 UTC|newest]
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2002-09-18 3:44 newbie Venkat Raghu
2002-09-18 4:04 ` Charles Manning [this message]
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2001-11-27 9:37 newbie Tolga KILICLI
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