[PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop
Chris Ball
cjb at laptop.org
Wed Dec 10 15:36:31 EST 2008
Hi John,
> It's unfortunate that there's no "block device" way to access Flash
> chips in Linux without using a filesystem at all. It's much easier
> to measure and tune I/O performance without a filesystem first,
> then see what (filesystem or driver) optimizations are required to
> make a particular filesystem fast on that device.
Does e.g. "dd if=mtd0 of=somefile bs=1M count=20" accomplish this?
(When a program expects a block device argument, you can give a raw
"mtd0" instead.)
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
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