Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

From: Ricard Wanderlof
Date: Tue Sep 16 2008 - 03:13:18 EST



On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote:

This is all very interesting - I had no prior experience with NOR, so
didn't know that 0.6MB/s was slow. It's fast compared with older
EEPROMs after all, and had imagined that people wanting fast flash
would use NAND.


NAND is significantly faster when writing than NOR, read speed is of the same magnitude, possibly slower in many cases.

/Ricard
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