[Arm-netbook] A10 Nand Inteface

[Gordan Bobic]

On 01/01/2012 07:32 PM, Bari Ari wrote:
> On 01/01/2012 01:12 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 01/01/2012 06:27 PM, Bari Ari wrote:
>>> The A10 nand interface is 8 bits wide. This interface might also be used
>>> for an FPGA for RTAI or other flexible IO one might like. It would be
>>> nice to have this bus on a header for use with out without on-board Nand.
>> Personally, I'd like to see a bunch of RAM hanging off it, instead of
>> flash. A gig would be nice. 4 gig would be awesome.
>>
>>
> There is a RAM interface as well and I believe they are shooting for 1GB
> of DDR3 on the modules.

Sure, but the SoC is limited to 1GB of RAM, so an extra 4GB of 
block-device RAM for fast swap would be handy for server use.

> The NAND interface is separate from the RAM interface. The A10 can
> support RAM DDR2/DDR3 and NAND flash at the same time. I believe it was
> discussed to have a few gigs of NAND on the module as well. If the NAND
> interface also has a header it could be used for NAND and/or FPGA.

I thought Luke mentioned that the NAND interface can also handle RAM 
attached to it, but presumably, only expose it as a block device, hence 
why I said fast swap space.

Gordan