... of single page > programming). This means, that smartmedia access protocol can be > abstracted out in ... On board NAND | with HW ECC | | |----------| SmartMedia Card ------------------ Having a separate driver infrastructure for ...

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 19 2008 - 02:37

... does not try to abstract any smartmedia functionality. Second, ssfdc is hopelessly obsolete ... advanced functionality present in many smartmedia and all memorystick readers: adapter ... needed for satisfactory support of smartmedia through mtd was found by ...

linux-kernel - Alex Dubov - Apr 18 2008 - 04:47

... support advanced > > functionality present in many smartmedia and all memorystick > > readers: adapter ... needed for satisfactory > > support of smartmedia through mtd was found by me ... "quirk" area of the statement "smartmedia are flash chips with quirks" ...

linux-kernel - Alex Dubov - Apr 18 2008 - 22:49

... does not try to abstract any smartmedia functionality. > > "Proof of concept" is the ... better idea? As you understand, both smartmedia media and hosts follow certain spec ... page programming). This means, that smartmedia access protocol can be abstracted ...

linux-kernel - Alex Dubov - Apr 18 2008 - 23:05

... m working on Nand Flash memory. > > Smartmedia requires a flash translation layer ( ... disk drives or disk controllers (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, etc.) nobody has contributed it to the public source tree. If you're interested in buying code that does ...

netbsd-tech-kern - Thor Lancelot Simon - Jan 30 2004 - 14:28

... from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture > > card > > > media. Currently, ... TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > > > > > > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the ... as a separate media type. > > > > They're NAND chips, just with a ...

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 17 2008 - 09:38

... from JMicron, a native support > for Smartmedia/xD picture card media. Currently, only ... > TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the ... aside as a separate media type. Smartmedia cards _ARE_ dumb NAND flash chips ...

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 17 2008 - 09:35

... not try to abstract any > smartmedia functionality. > > Second, ssfdc is hopelessly ... advanced > functionality present in many smartmedia and all memorystick > readers: adapter ... needed for satisfactory > support of smartmedia through mtd was found by ...

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 18 2008 - 05:35

... a "quirk" area of > the statement "smartmedia are flash chips with quirks". Both > memorystick and smartmedia are always operated in tandem with their > ... . there is no quirk in a smartmedia card. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from ...

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 19 2008 - 01:56

... |----------| On board NAND > | with HW ECC | > | |----------| SmartMedia Card > ------------------ > > Having a separate driver infrastructure ... the MTD layer. Shouldn't both smartmedia and legacy memorystick controllers can be ...

linux-kernel - Alex Dubov - Apr 19 2008 - 22:25

... from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture > card > > media. Currently, only ... TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > > > > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the ... as a separate media type. > > They're NAND chips, just with a standard ...

linux-kernel - Alex Dubov - Apr 17 2008 - 05:11

... MTD. There are already other FTLs on top of MTD and the SmartMedia > format just can be added to those. Isn't drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c - despite its name - an implementation of the SmartMedia FTL? When I last looked at it, I failed to see any ...

linux-kernel - Jörn - Apr 17 2008 - 10:07

... of concept". It > does not try to abstract any smartmedia functionality. "Proof of concept" is the wrong term. The goal of ... all this, amount of effort needed for satisfactory support of smartmedia through mtd > was found by me to be far greater than ...

linux-kernel - Jörn - Apr 18 2008 - 10:00

... at > around 78 chars ? > >> As you understand, both smartmedia media and hosts follow certain >> spec (publicly ... such as prohibition of single page >> programming). This means, that smartmedia access protocol can be >> abstracted out in the reader- ...

linux-kernel - matthieu castet - Apr 19 2008 - 04:31

... help from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture card > media. Currently, only ... so TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the dumb ... as a separate media type. They're NAND chips, just with a standard ...

linux-kernel - Ben Dooks - Apr 17 2008 - 05:01

... from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture >> card >>> media. Currently, only ... TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. >>> >>> Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the ... as a separate media type. >> They're NAND chips, just with a standard ...

linux-kernel - Andy Lutomirski - Apr 17 2008 - 09:10

... 't need full hard drives, or for developing MTD filesystems on > readily-available hardware.) There is one MTD driver for Smartmedia/xD in the kernel, see drivers/mtd/nand/alauda.c. It is derived from the USB mass storage driver drivers/usb/storage/ ...

linux-kernel - Arnd Bergmann - Apr 17 2008 - 09:36

On Thu, 17 April 2008 01:50:33 -0700, Alex Dubov wrote: > > Current version will always issue whole block writes (no individual page programming). I,in fact, > implemented a version which tracks partially filled blocks, but experiments with some

linux-kernel - Jörn - Apr 17 2008 - 10:19

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, J

linux-kernel - Thomas Gleixner - Apr 17 2008 - 15:11

On Thu, 17 April 2008 21:11:30 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Oops. I did not bother to look into drivers/mtd and for some reason it > slipped out of my memory that it got mainlined. It's read only, but > the missing bits to make it r/w are not

linux-kernel - Jörn - Apr 17 2008 - 17:21