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Subject: Re: Intel sez: Synchronous Flash and XIP is the future -- thought s? 
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paulnash@wildseed.com said:
> Actually, Intel's L18/L30 series of "wireless flash" has that feature,
> Read-while-erase-or-write as long as the reads are not to the 8MBit
> partition being dealt with in an erase or write.

1MiB is slightly saner but still not wonderful. At least I suppose it would 
allow you to have your kernel in the first MiB and hence not affected by 
changes to the file system. Doing it at an erase-block granularity would be 
better.

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dwmw2