From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1BbTUA-0001vV-6F for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:13:32 -0400 From: "Thomas Gleixner" To: "Dan Brown" , Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:07:42 +0200 References: <001501c4558c$4e42ce80$4402a8c0@tinker> In-Reply-To: <001501c4558c$4e42ce80$4402a8c0@tinker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406190207.42609.tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: DOC support update Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Saturday 19 June 2004 01:30, Dan Brown wrote: > The new NAND-subsystem-based DiskOnChip driver should now be fairly close > to providing proper JFFS2 support, if it doesn't already. A tricky issue > with the hardware ECC generator was discovered today, and hopefully solve= d. Kudos to Dan for all his efforts. > - Have a DOC Millenium or DOC2000 TSOP. Millenium+ is not supported (oth= er > folks are hard at work on this). DOC2000 original does not have BBT > handling yet (coming soon!) and should not be used with JFFS2 yet. Please join this effort as it will provide all the benefits of the generic= =20 mtd/nand subsystem and help us avoid to have redundant and incompatible cod= e.=20 At least the prospect to run JFFS2 or YAFFS on DoC should convince you of t= he=20 worthiness of this effort. I'm positive that the Millenium+ efforts will show up with similar results= =20 soon. The general problems of DoC support seem to be solved so it should be= a=20 straight forward task despite of the device specific oddities to get it=20 running soon. Please note that we plan to obsolete the DoC drivers in drivers/mtd/devices= in=20 the long run and switch the DoC support completely over to mtd/nand. This=20 will affect the (I)NFTL layers too, as they will benefit from the nand =20 functionality too.=20 =2D-=20 Thomas _____________________________________________________________________ =46rom slash dot org "When customers are visiting, engineers are not allowed to wear ties.=20 That way the customer can tell who is the engineer and who is the=20 salesman (and therefore whom to believe.). Ties cut off blood flow=20 to the brain, making it easier for the salesmen to do their jobs."=20 _____________________________________________________________________ linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux http://www.linutronix.de mail: tglx@linutronix.de