From: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mike Jadon <mikej@umem.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI NVRAM Memory Card
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:40:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010810114011.X3126@sventech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622101907.03ac21b0@192.168.0.5> <m17kwctghx.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m17kwctghx.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:24:10AM -0600
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Mike Jadon <mikej@umem.com> writes:
>
> > My company has released a PCI NVRAM memory card but we haven't developed a Linux
> >
> > driver for it yet. We want the driver to be open to developers to build upon.
> > Is there a specific path we should follow with this being our goal?
>
> You might want to check out the development of the mtd subsystem.
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
>
> This is probably what you want to write a driver for for your NVRAM PCI card.
Not really.
In their case, it's a bunch of standard SDRAM on a PCI card with a
battery backup. It's not flash.
A block device is all that's needed.
JE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-10 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-08 19:30 PCI NVRAM Memory Card Mike Jadon
2001-08-08 19:49 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-08 19:54 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-08-08 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-10 9:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-10 15:40 ` Johannes Erdfelt [this message]
2001-08-10 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-10 16:47 ` Johannes Erdfelt
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2001-08-08 22:14 Jesse Pollard
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