Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS on a 256 bytes/page device

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Author: Charles Manning
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To: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS on a 256 bytes/page device
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 02:28:10 Reggie Vivekananda wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I'm using YAFFS on a Atmel (now Adesto) Dataflash AT45DB642D that have
> pages of 1024 bytes (1056, actually). Unfortunately, Adesto is retiring
> that flash, so I need to know: is it possible to make YAFFS work with a
> device that have pages of 256 (264, actually) bytes, like AT45DB641E
> (http://www.adestotech.com/at45db641e)?

>


Yaffs needs at least 512 bytes for a "chunk" unless you modify the code. At
first that might seem to mean Yaffs cannot work with devices with a page size
of 256 bytes.

However, there is nothing stopping you from making a "chunk" out or 2 or more
pages, so it can be done.

-- Charles