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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: rpurdie@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:17:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126019839.8338.156.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906150819.GA14661@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 September 2005 15:46:18 +0100, rpurdie@infradead.org wrote:
> > 
> > -	if (machine_is_husky()) {
> > +	if (machine_is_husky() || machine_is_borzoi()) {
> >  		/* Need to use small eraseblock size for backward compatibility */
> >  		sharpsl_mtd->flags |= MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS;
> >  	}
> 
> With Ferenc's patch in, MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS has lost its effect.  I
> guess we will remove that flag sometime in the near future.

I'm running mainline mtd so I guess I haven't seen this yet.

The problem is that on the Sharp Zaurus series we're stuck with a ROM
bootloader that flashes the partitions in a certain way. The above flag
allowed us to stay compatible with that and is quite important. I'm not
sure where this leaves us...

Thanks for the heads up though.

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1ECeiI-0000H1-91@phoenix.infradead.org>
2005-09-06 15:08 ` mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5 Jörn Engel
2005-09-06 15:17   ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2005-09-06 15:22     ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-06 15:34       ` Richard Purdie

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