From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14psD6-00059x-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:41:32 +0100 From: Robert Kaiser Reply-To: rob@sysgo.de To: Vipin Malik Subject: Re: Elan SC520 - problem with MTD Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:14:56 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain References: <01041716025800.02061@rob> <22300.987516491@redhat.com> <3ADC62AE.66B350ED@daniel.com> In-Reply-To: <3ADC62AE.66B350ED@daniel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse , Alexander Melichenko , mtd@infradead.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041815411600.00407@rob> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: Hi Vipin, On Die, 17 Apr 2001 you wrote: > > This is the board that I am working with myself. I've got this working for > quite a while and have sent > my "physmap.c" file to a few folks personally (that's the original physmap.c > file from CVS hacked for the SC520 CDP- this was before there was > a physmap file in CVS for this board.) > > [snip] > > I suggest that whoever checked the sc520cdp.c file into CVS, .. That would be me ... >,at the very least > pick up the above comments > and include them as a warning, even if they don't want to reprogram the PAR at > the new and proper address Sorry, I wasn't aware of your work in this area when I wrote sc520cdp.c and decided to contribute it. My main goal was to use the flash for a JFFS filesystem, so this strange mapping used by the BIOS wasn't a problem for me. > (I suggest that we reprogram the PAR regs). I tend to agree, though the fact that we are deviating from the BIOS's configuration this way makes me wonder if there should be a config option for it. OTOH, MTD already has more than enough config options already and I'm hesitant to add another one. (Just try to imagine how to write a one-paragraph entry for Configure.help to explain to people what this option does without scaring them away). Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser@sysgo.de SYSGO RTS GmbH Am Pfaffenstein 14 phone: (49) 6136 9948-762 D-55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany fax: (49) 6136 9948-10 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org