[Arm-netbook] Real size of Mele A1000 NAND

[Tom Cubie]

On May 11, 2012 5:31 AM, "Alejandro Martínez" <zen at itram.es> wrote:
>
> 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.
i think so. reusing old code saves a lot. the short to market time makes
everything remain the same. i want a better partition format, better
firmware format, linux friendly flashing tools, but changing means risk.
everything now is working fine. so nobody want to change.
>
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