[Yaffs] 16-bit nand update

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:53 +0100, Nick Bane wrote:
> I am informed via a contact to the head of marketing in Samsung that
> the 1GBit .. 16GBit devices will all be 2k page size but on an 8 bit
> bus.

I have the same informations.

> Yaffs2 is therefore still relevant but OneNAND (or other custom
> hardware ecc accelerators) may become more tempting for increased
> throughput.

The samsung engineers sent a initial mtd-patch for OneNAND support. It's
reviewed and I'm waiting for response. The only hassle with those chips
is that there's no second source available.

tglx