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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2004-01-20 1:13 8-bit mtd flash support Shamile Khan
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