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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <472414CE-94E8-4C8A-9586-DCA9E02A53C3 at netgate.com>, Jim Thompson wri
tes:

>> NanoBSD caters only to the "run read-only from flash" area, call
>> it if you will the "soekris" area.  I need to investigate if it
>> makes sense to use the FreeSBIE framework to build nanobsd images.
>
>All soekris boards have CF, which looks, for all the world like an  
>IDE drive.
>
>"real" flash is quite different.

NanoBSD works fine with "raw" flash as well because it is practically
read-only.

Writing a flash-friendly-filesystem would be a good project.

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