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Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackersNetgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackersPosted Jul 1, 2008 2:39 UTC (Tue) by busterb (subscriber, #560)In reply to: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers by TRS-80 Parent article: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers
The flash memory on these devices generally hangs off a word-addressable local bus from the CPU, so it is relatively expensive NOR flash. The flash memory in your cheap USB drive is NAND flash, which is only block addressable, like a hard drive. Most CPUs require NOR flash to boot from because it looks like regular memory. It would likely be more expensive to include both NOR and NAND flash rather than just putting a little NOR flash down and calling it a day.
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Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers Posted Jul 7, 2008 16:16 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] You're generally right about NOR flash being needed to boot, but some vendors support copying NAND flash into RAM so it can be booted without needing NOR flash - see http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/2224021 for Samsung and Symbian collaborating to deliver this. You do need a smarter flash controller though.
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