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Subject: Re: Viable PPC platform?
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 00:15 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> But then, a 400 MHz Geode is a bit faster than a 50 MHz 8xx, probably
> not only in terms of CPU performance but  also  in  terms  of  memory
> bandwidth.

It's actually NAND flash, and the bandwidth sucks (the flash controller
on the Geode companion chip is quite slow). We're getting about 3 MiB/s
from it, although we _ought_ to be able to get 3½. I'm playing with
JFFS2 some more before I go back to tweaking the NAND drivers though.

-- 
dwmw2