Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[void void]

Tuesday, June 13, 2000, 12:34:54 PM, you wrote:

AL> Hi,

AL> Is the kernel driver for the doc devices working? I haven't tried mtd in
a
AL> while but I'd really like to replace the IGEL driver with something open
AL> source.

Hello.
I tried DOC2000 with mtd on 2.3.99-pre9 kernel.
It seems that dirver works properly, but I can't boot from DOC.
I can read from and write to /dev/nftlXX, but I can't boot :(
BIOS of my mb (Advantech PCA-6135L) can not find boot
device. On the same hardware M-Systems' driver allow me
to boot from DOC2000, but it works with kernel 2.2.XX, not 2.3.XX.
I'd like replace IGEL driver too, but I don't sure
it's possible now...
--
Sincerely,
Dmitry Kargapolov, ICQ 54000305, dk@gentex.ru

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Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[void void]

adi@adis.on.ca said:

> Hmmm... So are there some really easy instructions on how to
> build the driver?

good question!

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Re: Common Flash Interface probe code.

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Anyone with memory-mapped CFI-compliant NOR flash, especially if it's not 
> in 16-bit mode like the one I'm testing on - could you test this probe code 

Nifty.. I have a FLASH SIMM at work which AFAIK is 32bits wide, with 4
8-bit CFI chips (I hope) interleaved and then another 4 cascaded at the
end of that set. So the bottom two address lines and top address line
select which of the 8 chips and the rest of them index the memory.

You should be able do two things with this sort of flash configuration:
  1) Small erase sectors and slower 8/16bit IO - this is done by abusing
     the address lines and indexing 1 chip at a time.
  2) Large erase sectors and fast 32bit IO, including 4 chip parallel
     writes.

It is hanging right off the CPU's main 32-bit memory bus with a chipselect
controlling a 16meg window to access it.

Assuming the flash is CFI it looks like your detector will find the first
4 chips, but not the second set.

> #ifdef __arm__
> /* Shoot me. Better still, shoot rmk. dwmw2 */
> #undef writeb
> #undef writew
> #undef readb
> #undef readw
> #define readb(l) (*(unsigned char *)(l))
> #define writeb(c,l)  do {*((unsigned char *)(l)) = (c);} while (0)
> #define readw(l) (*(unsigned short *)(l))
> #define writew(c,l)  do {*((unsigned short *)(l)) = (c);} while (0)
> /* It's OK. You can look back now. */
> #endif /* __arm__ */

Wots up with this? Some of the ARM ports have 'interesting' IO..

Jason



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M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Is the kernel driver for the doc devices working? I haven't tried mtd in a
while but I'd really like to replace the IGEL driver with something open
source.

TTYL,
Adi




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Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[David Woodhouse]

adi@adis.on.ca said:
> Is the kernel driver for the doc devices working? I haven't tried mtd
> in a while but I'd really like to replace the IGEL driver with
> something open source.

It works fine in read-only mode. Some problems have been reported in write 
mode, but I haven't been able to reproduce them.

It's not yet very efficient in write mode, but it ought to work.

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Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Hmmm... So are there some really easy instructions on how to build the
driver? Then I will give it a try!

TTYL,
Adi

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 
> adi@adis.on.ca said:
> > Is the kernel driver for the doc devices working? I haven't tried mtd
> > in a while but I'd really like to replace the IGEL driver with
> > something open source.
> 
> It works fine in read-only mode. Some problems have been reported in write 
> mode, but I haven't been able to reproduce them.
> 
> It's not yet very efficient in write mode, but it ought to work.
> 
> --
> dwmw2
> 
> 



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Re: M-Systems Disk-On-Chip driver

[David Woodhouse]

adi@adis.on.ca said:
>  Hmmm... So are there some really easy instructions on how to build
> the driver? Then I will give it a try!

Try the 2 cvs instructions given on the web page.
follow with...

 cd mtd
 ./utils/MAKEDEV
 make
 cd kernel
 insmod ./mtdcore.o
 insmod ./doc2000.o
 insmod ./docprobe.o
 insmod ./nftl.o



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