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Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

Posted Jul 7, 2008 16:16 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers by busterb
Parent article: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

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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