Re: Large flash concatenation

[tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)]

On Friday 28 May 2004 12:42, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 2. The nand driver itself can handle multiple chips now. The scan
> > function supports multiple chip detection. Do not use the concat function
> > for this purpose. The chips are provided as one big device to the MTD
> > layer if you do not use partitions.
>
> How do I do this? Each chip appears at a separate address (we've used
> the lower 6 bits of the address lines to decode the chip selects for
> each chip). At the moment, I'm looping over all the possible addresses
> calling 'nand_scan' at each address. Is this this correct way to do
> this?

nand_scan now takes a parameter maxchips. This tells nand_scan to scan for up 
to maxchips chips.

The selection is simple. Only one chip can be selected at a time. 
All you have to do is write your own select_chip function and set the function 
pointer in the nand chip structure to this function before calling nand_scan

the function gets the chipnr (0 - maxchip-1) which should be selected or -1 to 
deselect.
Inside this function you simply modify the IO_ADDR_R and IO_ADDR_W fields of 
the nand structure so the appropriate chip gets selected.

-- 
Thomas
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