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+This is a driver for NAND controller of Intel Moorestown platform.
+
+This driver is a standalone linux block device driver, it acts as if it's a normal hard disk.
+It includes three layer:
+	block layer interface - file ffsport.c
+	Flash Translation Layer (FTL) - file flash.c (implement the NAND flash Translation Layer, includs address mapping, garbage collection, wear-leveling and so on)
+	Low level layer - file lld_nand.c/lld_cdma.c/lld_emu.c (which implements actual controller hardware registers access)
+
+This driver can be build as modules or build-in.
+
+Dependency:
+This driver has dependency on IA Firmware of Intel Moorestown platform.
+It need the IA Firmware to create the block table for the first time.
+And to validate this driver code without IA Firmware, you can change the
+macro AUTO_FORMAT_FLASH from 0 to 1 in file spectraswconfig.h. Thus the
+driver will erase the whole nand flash and create a new block table.
+
+TODO:
+	- Enable Command DMA feature support
+	- lower the memory footprint
+	- Remove most of the unnecessary global variables
+	- Change all the upcase variable / functions name to lowercase
+	- Some other misc bugs
+
+Please send patches to:
+	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+And Cc to: Gao Yunpeng <yunpeng.gao@intel.com>
+