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From: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
To: "Trent Piepho" <tpiepho@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, u-boot@lists.denx.de,
	Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	Norbert van Bolhuis <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl>,
	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] NAND only (no NOR)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:57:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c384c5ea0812030557q1293a2beo3a306e176c306e0a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812022339030.10176@t2.domain.actdsltmp>

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote:
>>> Yes, I would recommend to do it this way if possible. A small NOR for
>>> U-Boot and environment and everything else in NAND. This makes things
>>> much easier. But I understand that this is sometimes a problem with
>>> space (2 FLASH chips) and costs.
>>
>> Mainly cost. We didn't want to pay for a second chip.
>
> I think for NAND the latches necessary to de-multiplex the localbus aren't
> necessary like they are for NOR?  On our board the latches might even take
> more space than the flash chip.

The local bus can be configured to run non-multiplexed.

Regards,
-- 
Leon

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  8:55 NAND only (no NOR) Norbert van Bolhuis
2008-12-02  9:31 ` [U-Boot] " Alessandro Rubini
2008-12-03  2:50 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-12-03  5:48   ` [U-Boot] " Stefan Roese
2008-12-03  6:38     ` Sean MacLennan
2008-12-03  7:40       ` Trent Piepho
2008-12-03 13:57         ` Leon Woestenberg [this message]

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