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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Anton Ertl wrote:
> As reported by Alex, there are flash devices with 16MB erase
> granularity and 16KB read/write granularity.  1KB blocks are
> definitely not perfect, and if we want to just adjust the block size
> while keeping the basic interface, the obvious solution would be to go
> for 16MB blocks on these devices.

This certainly changes the meaning of "a screenful of code". :-)
Assuming, of course, that a screen is the size of a block.