[Yaffs] Using YAFFS with an array of NOR flash.

[Charles Manning]

Many people have done YAFFS on NOR and indeed there are some shipping
products using this.

YAFFS does not do erase suspend, so garbage collection is a bit slow.
Still, it should be fine for testing purposes.
Let's say you have a block size of 64kB.
Each "chunk" needs 512 data bytes + 16 spare bytes =3D 528 bytes.
Therefore each block can hold 64K/528 =3D 124 chunks.

So, set chunksPerBlock to 124 and away you go!

-- Charles

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> I am working on integrating the direct interface into our bootloader=20
> environment. Currently, I have read and write capabilities=20
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> the RAM-disk. I want to move on to making the file system persistent=20
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> NOR interface is correct, so I want to try it first. Does anyone have=20
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