From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>,
Murali N Iyer <mniyer@us.ibm.com>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add support to access the flash on SLOF based systems
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:29:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901121829.58489.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496B784C.5010800@gefanuc.com>
On Monday 12 January 2009, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Adrian Reber wrote:
> > The reason why I did not use mtd is that part of the flash is used by
> > the firmware image and I do not know if that works with mtd, if only a
> > part of the flash can be used. SLOF does also a "CRC" check over the
> > firmware image, so that image must have valid SLOF "CRC". The flash is
> > a direct mapped flash, but the size of the firmware can vary.
>
> It can. MTD can create "partitions" within the flash, for an example
> see lines 84-110 of arch/powerpc/bootdts/sbc8641d.dts (http://tinyurl.com/7k2kym)
>
> Partitions can also be labeled as read-only, I guess the CRC could be
> checked from userspace as necessary.
Murali has also done a modified firmware for experiments in the past where
he added the device tree entry for the flash on a PxCAB. As I recall, he did
not see any problems with that.
Arnd <><
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-10 15:31 [PATCH] powerpc: Add support to access the flash on SLOF based systems Adrian Reber
2009-01-10 17:52 ` Milton Miller
2009-01-10 19:50 ` Adrian Reber
2009-01-12 15:51 ` Milton Miller
2009-01-14 15:56 ` Adrian Reber
2009-01-12 17:05 ` Martyn Welch
2009-01-12 17:29 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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