[U-Boot-Users] "stacked" memory mapped flash assisted with GPIOs

Michael Schwingen rincewind at discworld.dascon.de
Sun Jan 20 22:28:58 CET 2008


Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> I have not yet looked at the details of working with NAND flash, but the
>> requirements should be similar. Maybe the NAND subsystem can be coerced
>> to do what you need ...
>>     
>
> i dont think nand would be as much of a problem as it isnt directly 
> addressable.  you have to go through the "nand" subsystem for reading/writing 
> while with parallel nor flash, it's directly addressable.
Well, your parallel flash is *not* directly addressable, so it might be 
worth to check if the NAND code can be used (by providing a NAND 
low-level driver which redirects to your banked flash).

cu
Michael





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