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Subject: Re: /dev/cfi NOR flash driver
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            "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org> writes:
: I still think it's important that we have some kind of support for the 
: Linux MTD partition format, manufacturers have a habit of shipping 
: hardware which uses this because Linux did catch us all napping.

I've gone to start writing geom_mtd.c several times, but nothing ever
came of it because other issues kept coming up.

warner