NAME

nandsim — NAND Flash simulator driver

SYNOPSIS

device nand
device nandsim
options ALQ

DESCRIPTION

The nandsim is part of the FreeBSD 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 nandsim allows for imitating ONFI-compliant NAND Flash devices as if they were attached to the system via a virtual controller.

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

SEE ALSO

nand(4), nandsim.conf(5), nandsim(8)

STANDARDS

Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group (ONFI).

HISTORY

The nandsim support first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS

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