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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NAND flash
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:08:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21715.1003248531@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011016083420.A18642@recycle.lbl.gov>

ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov said:
>  I think you should double check that assertion.  My understanding is
> that the "Smart" in the name is a bug.  These are actually NAND chips,
> consumer-grade packaged, standardized, and marketed, with no smarts at
> all.  So you _could_ use the nand.c driver, with the right interface-
> specific wrapper layer to get at the device.

Correct, with the proviso that some SmartMedia 'adapters' have 
microcontrollers built in, and the host can't actually _get_ at the raw 
flash.

> Unfortunately, the result would not be content-compatible with other
> SmartMedia users, because SmartMedia also has a standard for encoding
> blocks on the nand chips.  I tried to read that standard, but the PDF
> file is encrypted in a way that is incompatible with xpdf-0.92.  The
> URL for that reference material has been posted here before, it's
>  http://www.ssfdc.or.jp/spec/english/

Acroread can manage it. It all looks fairly simple to implement.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-16 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-16 15:34 NAND flash Larry Doolittle
2001-10-16 16:08 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-09 15:04 Eugeny Mints
2003-10-09 15:14 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-09 15:21 ` Stephan Linke
2003-10-09 18:01   ` Charles Manning
2002-06-21  9:44 NAND FLASH Steve Tsai
2002-06-21  9:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-06-21 17:07   ` Steve Tsai
2002-06-21 17:29     ` Thomas Gleixner
2001-10-16 13:53 NAND flash nagaraj trivedi
2001-10-16 13:51 nagaraj trivedi
2001-10-16 15:06 ` Steven J. Hill

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