From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Studying MTD <studying_mtd@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: why MTD model ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 22:34:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30266.1024004092@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020613161907.87873.qmail@web21503.mail.yahoo.com>
studying_mtd@yahoo.com said:
> Can somehow we treat(emulate) memory device as a block device and
> treat memory device like a hard disk ?
Not directly, no. There are drivers which do so -- and present a flash
device as a block device using translation layers of various complexity,
but that is not a true representation of the capabilities of the underlying
device.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 23:53 why MTD model ? Studying MTD
2002-06-13 10:34 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-13 16:19 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-13 16:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-13 17:13 ` Howto create a new jffs2 Krypton
2002-06-14 2:22 ` Steve Tsai
2002-06-14 3:20 ` Problem putting JFFS on MTD Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 8:46 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 8:50 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:18 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:39 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 6:22 ` Howto create a new jffs2 Krypton
2002-06-14 6:55 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 7:46 ` Krypton
2002-06-14 7:47 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:52 ` Krypton
2002-06-13 21:34 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-06-14 4:29 ` why MTD model ? Studying MTD
2002-06-14 7:54 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:01 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 9:23 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:59 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 12:21 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 12:36 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-19 14:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] <4611.1024058858@redhat.com>
2002-06-14 23:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-15 7:34 ` David Woodhouse
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