-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: |> I don't want to talk too much about future products, but I would vote against |> going away from NAND for 03 -- there's too many business risks. 03 is about |> evolution. 04 is revolution. | | The NAND is still there in case we find that we really can't live | without it. But we all hope we can. Happily ;-)
There is a ton of NAND in the SD Card which ~ - has no bad blocks ~ - needs no ECC ~ - has wear levelling ~ - is user upgradeable ~ - takes standard partitioning directly ~ - does not need special filesystems ~ - needs no special workarounds in production ~ - does not expose a block device that has bad sectors ~ - does not need special MTD utilities like nandwrite to touch it ~ - should be at least around the same speed as existing 2442 MCP NAND and potentially twice the speed sustained People use SD boot on GTA01, I used it for months on GTA02 with perfect reliability, both times via U-Boot which we can still use if push comes to shove. We base our GTA02 production on SD Boot. So I didn't see any abnormal risks and a lot of advantages. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhFAQEACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqxaACfSkDZt0dIpC5A6RR06We/vE92 oAYAnia/KHEKCYTw/2S7bK4Z1ZvXK4Rs =rC4d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
