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Honored ContributorWe haven't quite made it to the stage where we would be able to test this implementation.
It is indeed part of our plan, because AMD themselves have recommended using this Spansion branded flash chip (S29GL128M) over some of their earlier AMD flash chips. We are also running uClinux and plan to use JFFS2 for our flash system, so we have a lot to test and configure. 1) Support for flash chip on Avalon bus. 2) Support for flash chip with the flash programmer tool. 3) Support for flash chip under the Linux mtd drivers. 4) Support for the flash chip under the Linux JFFS2 filesystem. If we can get all of these items working, then our flash choice will work. Our contingency plan will be to move back to a 8MB flash chip and simply use the one that is on the Microtronix uKit board. We will be putting forth some good effort towards getting the S29GL128M flash chip to work. Our only enemy will be time. If we can't get things resolved quick enough, we will have to resort to the older flash. I will post our progress so others may benefit. Since we haven't implemented it yet, we would also like to know if anyone else has made it further down this path.
