----- Original Message -----
From: "pradeep cy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: use of NAND flash instead of NOR flash


> Hi,
>   I am looking for the option of using NAND flash instead of the present
NOR flash used for my SA1110 based board.
>
>  Has anyone used NAND flash ? what will be the changes that i will have to
take care in hardware and software fronts ?
>
> regards,
> pradeep

You will have to write a NAND driver for your hardware or make your hardware
similar enough to that expected by drivers/mtd/nand.c so that you only have
to change the port address. Note this driver assumes some control bits are
accessed via a single r/w register, not by GPIO or something (this sux, my
board uses GPIO). See drivers/mtd/spia.c for an example.

You will also need a ROM (OTPROM, EPROM, EEPROM, NOR Flash) based bootloader
since SA1110 has no NAND access feature. Don't forget to link NAND support
and JFFS2 in kernel or use an initial ramdisk with them as modules.

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