nandsim (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/nandsim.4freebsd".)

NAME

nandsim - NAND Flash simulator driver

SYNOPSIS

device nand device nandsim options ALQ

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig is part of the Fx NAND framework nand(4) and can be characterized with the following highlights:

• plugs into the nand(4) framework APIs as if it were a hardware controller (hanging on the nexus bus) with real NAND chips connected to it
• physically part of the kernel code (either statically linked into the kernel image or built as a module)
• controlled with a user space program nandsim(8)

From the user perspective, the ifconfig allows for imitating ONFI-compliant NAND Flash devices as if they were attached to the system via a virtual controller.

Some ifconfig features rely on the ability to log contents to a file, which is achieved through the alq(9) facility.

SEE ALSO

nand(4), nandsim.conf5, nandsim(8)

STANDARDS

Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group (Vt ONFI )

HISTORY

The ifconfig support first appeared in Fx 10.0 .

AUTHOR

The ifconfig kernel driver was developed by An Grzegorz Bernacki . This manual page was written by An Rafal Jaworowski .