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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Shamile Khan <shamile@yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 8-bit mtd flash support
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120083122.A5684C0655@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:13:32 PST." <20040120011332.12136.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com>


In message <20040120011332.12136.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I am faced with a situation where my processor is connected
> to 1 NOR flash chip in 8-bit mode. Now the consequence of
> this is that I cannot excute code directly from flash. I am

Why not? You should be able to configure your processor to use a  bus
width of 8 bit for the flash device.

> I was wondering if
> a) Its a valid concept to have a Linux mtd flash filesystem
> where the flash chip only allows 8-bit access

Yes.

> b) anyone else has been in this situation and

Yes.

> c) if there are mtd drivers available for 8-bit access to a
> flash chip.

Yes.

All this is in place and working.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20  1:13 8-bit mtd flash support Shamile Khan
2004-01-20  8:31 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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