Re: [iPAQ] IMPORTANT: don't use /dev/flash6

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> jg@pa.dec.com said:
> > So flash6 on 16 meg units wraps at 16 megabytes since the flash part
> > does not decode the high order bit, and he therefore overwrote the
> > bootloader, making his iPAQ useless.
>
> Cute. I had this happen to me too, albeit on different hardware - that's why
> I wrote the alias detection code for CFI compliant chips. Could the
> mtdbitsy driver be rewritten as a 'map' using the existing CFI code?

I think Bitsy is using my block flash driver which would fully benefit
from being ported into the MTD stuff, indeed. However it would be nice to
do it so other SA1100 designs out there could use the same driver.

Nicolas
Received on Wed Aug 23 09:38:56 2000