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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Sun Devil <sundevil007@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FTLs for NANDSim
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:00:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071022160003.GA13023@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193045588.2672.15.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

On Mon, 22 October 2007 10:33:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > 2. Do you have any implementations of FTL at Kernel level?
> 
> Yes. We have the simplistic 'mtdblock' which doesn't really do any
> translation at all, we have 'FTL' which works only on NOR flash, and we
> have 'NFTL' and 'INFTL' for use on DiskOnChip devices. There is a helper
> layer which is designed to make it relatively easy for you to provide
> your own translation layer, without having to get too deeply involved in
> how Linux block device drivers work.

There are at least two more:
ssfdc.c
rfd_ftl.c

One of them appears to do the smartmedia format, the other something
very similar.

Jörn

-- 
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out,
but that is not the reason we are doing it.
-- Richard Feynman

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20 16:22 FTLs for NANDSim Sun Devil
2007-10-22  9:33 ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-22 16:00   ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-10-22 16:12     ` Josh Boyer

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