From: jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik)
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Q: MTD and NIC Roms...
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:14:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E4B37CD.8090507@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3znp0zqaw.fsf@lnxi.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Currently I have a patch to eepro100.c that adds an MTD map driver so
> the onboard rom can be written. Making code like etherboot easier to
> flash etc.
[...]
> I am currently looking for ideas on ways to cleanly get this code
> into the kernel, and I am looking for ideas. The map driver is
Well... this functionality has existed for a while, and it doesn't need
to be in the kernel :)
Donald Becker's diag suite can do flashing.
ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/diag/ He provides means to program the flash
from userspace.
And I think that's the best place for it. We _could_ bloat up the
kernel code by adding the ability flash -- but how many users is that
going to serve, that are not already served by existing programs? So, I
disagree with getting this stuff into the kernel at all.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 5:45 Q: MTD and NIC Roms Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-13 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-02-13 6:29 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 6:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-13 7:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 0:33 ` yxh
2003-02-20 3:05 ` 邹应双
2003-02-13 18:34 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-02-13 6:27 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 7:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-06 20:20 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-04-08 11:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
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