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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: "Benedict, Michael" <MBenedict@twacs.com>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: MPC 8349e-mITX and MTD/Flash
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:48:21 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461BBFD5.7030302@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF7E46FCFF66AD478BB72724345289EC2795D3@twx-exch01.twacs.local>

Hello.

Benedict, Michael wrote:

>>Having said that, it seems that the kernel now supports 
>>defining the physmap via the OF 
>>tree.  Is that true?

> Initially I was going to try and define this via the OF tree.  However,
> the documentation indicated that the only supported device_type was
> "rom" so I did not persue that route.

   There was long discussion about using "mtd" and other types -- people were 
complaining that "mtd" was too Linux-centric term, so finally we ended up with 
"rom".  It doesn't imply that ROMs are the only supported devices. :-)

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 20:58 MPC 8349e-mITX and MTD/Flash Benedict, Michael
     [not found] ` <572211.38645.qm@web306.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
2007-04-10 14:06   ` Benedict, Michael
2007-04-10 14:13     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-04-10 14:41     ` Ben Warren
2007-04-10 15:48     ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-10 16:22       ` Benedict, Michael
2007-04-10 16:48         ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-04-10 16:48           ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-10 16:31       ` Vitaly Bordug

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