Re: Developer board for NetBSD flash file system development

Adam Hoka <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:54:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:35:01 +0100 (BST)
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> >Here in the University of Szeged (Hungary) we are developing a JFFS2 
> >like flash file system for NetBSD (and the necessary flash layer for 
> >it). As soon as we reach a usable version, it will be open - with BSD 
> >license.
> 
> Great.
> 
> >To really test it, we need a developer board with real flash (now we use 
> >flash simulator for development). Can you offer an ARM developer board 
> >with FLASH, where it is not too difficult to set up NetBSD on that?
> 
> What type of flash do you need ?

Currently we focus on NAND, but we plan to support NOR devices too,
at least the flash framework will provide a common block device interface
on-top of nand and nor chip specific drivers.

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