Re: [microblaze-uclinux] ### NAND FLASH

[Thomas D Tessier <tomt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

I see that you have a controller up on FLE but no pointers to what Linux 
facilities you would use to format and mount the drive.  Can you supply 
me with a few hints?

Thanks,
TomT...

Steve Spano wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks! At least now I have an idea of what to look at
>
> Steve Spano
> FLE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claudio
> Lanconelli
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:39 AM
> To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] ### NAND FLASH
>
> Steve Spano ha scritto:
>   
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I would like the use a NAND flash device with the uClinux 2.4 or 2.6
> > codeset. I assume the 2.4 probably has wider support for this.
> >   
> >     
> No, 2.4 needs more work because is unmaintained by MTD. So it's better
> to start with 2.6
>   
> > Has anyone done this already? If not, does anyone have a rough list of
> >     
> what
>   
> > files we should start playing with to enable NAND flash support?
> >   
> >     
> Yes, I use a Nand Flash on my microblaze board. I use YAFFS file system
> on 512Byte page nand flash.
> I picked last version of MTD with kernel 2.4 support and integrated it
> in uclinux. The main work is to write a custom driver for your core.
>   
> > Does anyone also know if the 2.4/2.6 kernel supports a flash file system
> > over to a SPI based flash device? I seem to see references to such.
> >   
> >     
> I can't help on this, never tried SPI flash.
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio Lanconelli
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