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Hello Manus,

Magnus Lilja wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/5/21 Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto@gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I am trying to give support for NAND flash device to Atmark Armadillo 500
>> developing board.
>> This board has an iMX31 processor and is shipped with an ST Micro NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit Flash.
>> Atmark support this board with an old 2.6.26 kernel with some modification.
>> For this NAND Flash Atmark installed the old Freescale mxc_nd driver brought up by
>> Sascha Hauer in the on tree mxc_nand.
>>     
>
> Is the ST Micro NAND device a small page or large page NAND? I ran
> into problems when trying to use the MXC-driver from the mainline
> Linux kernel on the i.MX31 PDK board which has a large page device
> mounted. I haven't had time to dig into the details yet though.
>   
I have the patch to support 2k pagesizes tested on mx31pdk. Will post in 
separate thread.

Regards,
Vladimir