linux-kernel - Re: Smartmedia/xd card support

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Message-ID: <20080417090137.GB16284@fluff.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:37 +0100
From:	Ben Dooks <ben@...ff.org>
To:	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>
Cc:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments

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 ?

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