From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16NwX8-0003bP-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:43:18 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <9A1957CB9FC45A4FA6F35961093ABB8406554B24@srvmail-mtl.montreal.ubisoft.org> References: <9A1957CB9FC45A4FA6F35961093ABB8406554B24@srvmail-mtl.montreal.ubisoft.org> To: Patrick Allaire Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: How to Sync properly ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:54:09 +0000 Message-ID: <24417.1010498049@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: pallaire@gameloft.com said: > I have been told : > >>> [...] You have to write a complete 8-byte page at a time. You cannot > write (for example 2 bytes of a page and then write the other 6-bytes > later) - this hangs up the state machine. [...] <<< > Is this true ? is there a work around to use properly ST flash ? > because INTEL flash cost us the double ! I don't know - I haven't seen any information about these chips. It wouldn't surprise me. It's a shame it's 8 bytes not 4 - 4 would be fine for JFFS2. A page size of 8 bytes means you have to change the padding to 8 bytes, or do the write-behind buffering that we're planning for NAND support anyway. -- dwmw2