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From: Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Using mtdblock as root device
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:37:48 +0100
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Hi,

On Die, 06 Mär 2001 you wrote:
> It's been submitted many many times. If you do submit it again, please add 
> nftl[bcd] and ftl[abcd] too, and I don't think you actually need anything 
> more than
> 	{"mtdblock", 0x1f00},
> 
> for the mtdblock devices, because they're handled just like partitions.

Hmm, I for one have two mtd devices on my platform, both of which I'd like
to be able to use as root device. But I agree that 16 is probably a bit
overkill. How about:

	{"mtdblock0", 0x1f00},
	{"mtdblock1", 0x1f01},
or:
	{"mtdblock", 0x1f00},
	{"mtdblock0", 0x1f00},
	{"mtdblock1", 0x1f01},

Rob

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