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This patch adds support for the Palm Treo 680 smartphone.  A quick overview of
u-boot implementation on the treo 680...

The treo 680 has a Diskonchip G4 nand flash chip.  This device has a 2k region
that maps to the system bus at the reset vector in a NOR-like fashion so that it
can be used as the boot device.  The phone is shipped with this 2k region
configured as write-protected (can't be modified) and programmed with an initial
program loader (IPL).  At power-up, this IPL loads the contents of two flash
blocks to SDRAM and jumps to it.  The capacity of the two blocks is not large
enough to hold all of u-boot, so a u-boot SPL is used.  To conserve flash space,
these two blocks and the necessary number of subsequent blocks are programmed
with a concatenated spl + u-boot image.  That way, the IPL will also load a
portion of u-boot proper, and when the spl runs, it relocates the portion of
u-boot that the IPL has already loaded, and then resumes loading the remaining...