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Subject: Re: Patching only NAND specific stuff possible?
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>>Considering the four Layers (jffs2,mtd,nand,hardware-drivers) it should
>>be possible onloy to 'update' the nand and hardware-drivers stuff.
>>Any objections to this?
> 
> 
> No, as long as you do not ask questions, why it doesnt work. :)
> The current nand driver needs the current mtd layer and JFFS2 from the
> last century will not work with those.

Thanks for this info. The NAND is a large page one with some extented
commands for large page devices. I have an older driver on the system so
the way is to upgrade this one to an appropriate one supporting the
large page nand with it's commands.

Marcus