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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