In message <DEF431FFDB15C1488464F0E57D5506642AA6B7@MEDNT02> you wrote: > > I've arranged for a pair of Spansion S29GL256N 256Mbit flash roms to be > connected to the > Au1100 static bus. These devices are each 16bits wide and are connected to > upper and lower > halves of the 32 bit static bus at an address such that the boot code can > reside in them. > After boot, we want to use the remainder of the devices as flash disk using > one of the wear > leveling file systems. Each flash chip implements the Common Flash Memory > Interface standard, OK. > but as they are arranged as 32 bits wide the devices are effectively > interleaved. I'd rather say thay are accesses in parallel. > Can Linux support this arrangement? Yes, of course. Such a configurationir more or less standard. The MTD drivers will work just fine. > Finally, this email is not confidential and is for all Linux-Mips > addressees. Then why do you attach such a silly disclaimer? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth
