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SubjectRe: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments

--- Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org> wrote:

> 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 ?
>

They have nothing to do with JFFS or UBI (it's an interchange format).
They require FTL.
On the other hand, "SmartMedia reader" is a rather definite kind of animal that exists on its own.




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