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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Large block NAND
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:26:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403181526.35200.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079619390.16952.142.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Thursday 18 March 2004 15:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:11 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Be aware, that the available NAND aware filesystems must be changed too,
> > as they are not aware of pagesizes > 512 byte, but if IIRC  the datasheet
> > details it is possible to write 4  512 byte sub-pages to the device
> > without violating the specs. Anyway changes will be neccecary.
>
> JFFS2 shouldn't actually have any problem with arbitrary page sizes as
> long as they're a power of two.

Except for the oob handling, but thats only one function to adjust

-- 
Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18 12:14 Large block NAND llandre
2004-03-18 13:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-03-18 14:16   ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-18 14:26     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2004-03-18 14:52   ` llandre
2004-03-18 14:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-03-18 14:59     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-22 15:37       ` David Updegraff
2004-03-22 15:57         ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-18 18:32     ` David Updegraff
2004-03-19  8:21       ` llandre

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