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From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Flash memory PCI Add in card
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:31:03 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507231231.03610.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050722171510.55261.qmail@web51007.mail.yahoo.com>

On Saturday 23 July 2005 05:15, Shankari wrote:

>
> My end objective is to simulate a flash file system.
> For this, I want to know if there are easy ways to
> interface the flash (via the PCI)

Sometimes I really miss the old days of ISA cards :-(.

Building an adequate environment for simulation/development is something I 
have struggled with too for the development of YAFFS.

Why not just use nandsim. Just create a 128MB or whatever lump of "NAND" in 
RAM. Adding an extra SIM of RAM to your system will be a lot cheaper and 
easier.

Someone on mtd list also built a simple board that attaches NAND to the IDE 
disk interface. Seems a lot simpler than messing about with PCI.

Another alternative is to use a parallel card interface. This will be a bit 
slower though.

If you really want to do a PCI card, then you might find something like a 
Xilinx or similar PCI evaluation board makes the job simpler.

-- Charles

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-23  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-22 17:15 Flash memory PCI Add in card Shankari
2005-07-22 19:48 ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-23  0:31 ` Charles Manning [this message]

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