[Arm-netbook] Real size of Mele A1000 NAND

[Alejandro Martínez]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:19 PM, David Given <dg at cowlark.com> wrote:
> The device driver code is in drivers/block/sun4i_nand/nfd; the low level
> stuff including the wear levelling code is in
> drivers/block/sun4i_nand/src. I have utterly no idea whether it's any
> good. Anyone know why they didn't implement an mtdblock driver and use
> yaffs2?

The partition format, as well as the firmware file format and the
flashing tools, come from other older SoCs such as the Sochip 8600.
This last one, for example, was mainly used for PMPs and didn't use
Linux/Android, they generally used their own closed operating system.

So, yeah, there seems to be no reason apart from trying to reuse old code.