On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Rutger Hofman <
rutger@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
> Bryan Wu wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Rutger Hofman <rutger@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Forwarded from the YAFFS mailing list also to the eCos list]
>>>
>>> Currently eCos has no real support for NAND flash. However, at this very
>>> moment I am working on that -- it is the main part of my job right now.
>>> Status: my pilot eCos NAND flash layer is working right now on my
>>> BlackFin, including Bad Block Table, ECC, etc. But before I publish, I
>>> need lots more stress testing.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting, you are porting eCos to Blackfin. What kind of Blackfin
>> hardware are you using?
>
> I use/adapted/extended the eCos port from the Tech University of Chemnitz by
> Andre Liesk (google knows where to get this). We will publish our
> contributions later, when the pressure has a abated a bit.
>
Cool, although I am a Linux guy, I also played with eCos some times ago.
Very glad to see this Blackfin eCos port release.
> Hardware: I started with a BF537 Stamp dev-board for a pilot study. Now, my
> hardware is a BF548 EZ-Kit -- mainly because it has NAND flash. The BF548
> has an on-board NAND Flash Controller (NFC). The hardware our group is
> currently developing is a custom board that will feature a BF547, also with
> NAND flash.
>
Right, BF54x has an on-chip NFC to support NAND flash. Actually, I
wrote the BF54x/BF52x NFC driver for the Linux kernel.
If you have anything want to discuss, welcome to visit our website
blackfin.uclinux.org
-Bryan
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