[OLPC-devel] Re: OLPC development board

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:17 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote:
> David,
> 
> I have a feeling that the Flash interface on the 88W8388 will not meet our 
> performance requirements since its purpose is to access firmware.
> 
> A solution using the 88W8388's flash controller  will have a relative long 
> path from the main CPU to the flash (GX2 <-> 5536 <-USB-> 88W8388 <-> 
> Flash).
> Such a chain will make it hard to run JFFS2 on, am I missing something?

This would only make sense if we could run JFFS2 on the 88W8388 itself
and exposing the fs contents via USB.

	tglx