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

I think writing mtdbitsy to be a map for the CFI driver is the right thing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:28 PM
> To: jg@pa.dec.com
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] IMPORTANT: don't use /dev/flash6
>
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> 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?
>
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> dwmw2
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Received on Wed Aug 23 12:00:06 2000