From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <257448.48285.qm@web36701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417090137.GB16284@fluff.org.uk>
--- Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:50:33AM -0700, Alex Dubov wrote:
> > I've implemented, with generous help from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture
> card
> > media. Currently, only JMicron backend is available, but TI expressed some interest in this
> too,
> > so TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow.
> >
> > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the dumb flash chips, but they have their quirks that put
> them
> > aside as a separate media type.
>
> They're NAND chips, just with a standard ECC/block replacement
> stratergy... why isn't this under drivers/mtd ?
>
They have nothing to do with JFFS or UBI (it's an interchange format).
They require FTL.
On the other hand, "SmartMedia reader" is a rather definite kind of animal that exists on its own.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-17 8:50 Alex Dubov
2008-04-17 9:01 ` Ben Dooks
2008-04-17 9:11 ` Alex Dubov [this message]
2008-04-17 13:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2008-04-17 13:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-17 13:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-17 14:07 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-17 19:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-17 21:21 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-18 8:47 ` Alex Dubov
2008-04-18 9:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-19 2:49 ` Alex Dubov
2008-04-19 5:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-18 14:00 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-19 3:05 ` Alex Dubov
2008-04-19 6:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-19 16:35 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-20 2:25 ` Alex Dubov
2008-04-17 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-17 14:19 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-19 8:31 matthieu castet
2008-04-20 16:01 ` Jörn Engel
2008-04-21 1:33 ` Alex Dubov
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