From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alexander Larsson <alex@cendio.se>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd comments
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:15:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2182.952510532@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000308093421.13423C-100000@biffen.cendio.se>
alex@cendio.se said:
> .
> This is mainly used as a bootsector type of thing. The idea seems to
> be that if your boot-code is a lot less than 64k you don't waste so
> much space. And you can also store configuration data in one of the
> smaller sectors, and rewrite it without destroying the boot sector.
Options include...
1. Ignore the smaller erasesize - pretend it's 64Kb and force you to erase the
whole lot at once.
2. Treat the parts with different erasesize as different logical devices as
far as the MTD layer is concerned.
3. Change the MTD interface so it can handle variable sector sizes somehow.
As you seem to be implying that the parts with different sector sizes are used
for a different purpose than the majority of the flash device, I'm inclined
to favour #2 for now.
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dwmw2
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-08 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-01 17:47 mtd comments Alexander Larsson
2000-03-07 19:42 ` David Woodhouse
2000-03-08 9:01 ` Alexander Larsson
2000-03-08 10:15 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-03-08 10:21 ` Alexander Larsson
2000-03-14 17:17 ` David Woodhouse
2000-03-14 17:23 ` Alexander Larsson
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