From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd support for large NAND
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:27:15 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710161327.15290.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49eab5c80710120136m557b0df1ye3bd4e04d345d222@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 12 October 2007 21:36:09 falls huang wrote:
> Hello !
>
> How can I simulate a large nandflash(>4G) in linux PC ? I want to
> take a look at it, but I don't have any develop-board that has 4G
There are a few problems you face here. Firstly, mtd does not support >4G
which will need fixing.
Secondly, even if your system has > 4G it might not be all simultaneously
accessible and you will need to use highmem as a way to do temporary mappings
to access this memory.
I might be tempted to try do this using some sort of userspace driver then
just backing the driver with regular files (eg. 8x1G files to simulate 8G of
NAND).
>
> On 10/11/07, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:11 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> > > Last I looked (2.6.23), mtd_info is limited by a u32 size field to
> > > 4Gbytes of flash. That's no longer very large and is limiting some
> > > applications.
> > >
> > > Is anyone working on this?
> >
> > Yeah, the problem is known, but nobody is working on the fix AFAIK.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
> >
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 20:11 mtd support for large NAND Charles Manning
2007-10-11 7:22 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-10-12 8:36 ` falls huang
2007-10-16 0:27 ` Charles Manning [this message]
2007-10-16 7:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-10-16 10:47 ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-16 19:47 ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16 19:55 ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-16 20:12 ` Charles Manning
2007-10-16 20:42 ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-16 21:16 ` Charles Manning
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