On 2006-12-24 00:29 +0200, Gil Messerman wrote:
>    Hello All,
> 
>    I'm using Balloon board 2.05g, with initial images (as were shipped):
> 
>    Bootloader - Compaq OHH BootLoader, Rev 2-20-2 for Balloon [BIG_KERNEL]
>    [MD5] [NAND] [YAFFS] [MONO]
> 
>    Kernel - 2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james
> 
>    As I noticed that pre-installed configuration contains three partitions,
>    one is for bootloader (on NOR chip) and two - boot and root on NAND chip.
> 
>    The board itself has three NAND chips 64Mb each.
> 
>    When kernel is loaded, it detects only one NAND device :
> 
>        Initialising Balloon NAND MTD devices.
>        NAND device: Manufacture ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x76 (Samsung K9D1208V0M)
>        Creating 2 MTD partitions on "Samsung K9D1208V0M":
>         000000-0x00100000 : "nand boot"
>         Giving out device 1 to nand boot
>        100000-0x02000000 : "nand root"
>        Giving out device 2 to nand root
>        catising of First Balloon NAND MTD was successful.
>        No NAND device found!!!
> 
>    The first question is whether the detected device is all three NAND chips,
>    or a single chip. In case it is a single chip, why other two chips are not
>    detected?

That is all three chips concatenated into one MTD device.

This is all being re-worked in the 2.6 kernel series.

Wookey
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