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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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Ron Madrid wrote:
>> Are there any filesystems mounted on NAND?  There are
>> some issues with transactions timing out if there's
>> contention with a long-running NAND operation.
> 
> Yes, a JFFS2.  If that is the case, is there any sort of
> workaround?

I've just posted some patches to linuxppc-dev and linux-mtd.

However, this can still result in large latencies -- you may want to add 
some software synchronization between NAND and other localbus users.

-Scott