From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1RqmaI-0005jX-EM for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:15:23 +0000 Received: by dadz9 with SMTP id z9so556384dad.36 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:15:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1327673847.29385.4.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] MTD: nand: add support for diskonchip G4 nand flash device From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Mike Dunn Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:17:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1325635544-17885-1-git-send-email-mikedunn@newsguy.com> References: <1325635544-17885-1-git-send-email-mikedunn@newsguy.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lmy/62LDldhiub1lyqST" Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: robert.jarzmik@free.fr, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --=-lmy/62LDldhiub1lyqST Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mike, On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:05 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote: > +config MTD_NAND_DOCG4 > + tristate "Support for DiskOnChip G4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" > + depends on EXPERIMENTAL > + select BCH > + select BITREVERSE > + help > + Support for diskonchip G4 nand flash, found in various smartphones an= d > + PDAs, among them the Palm Treo680, HTC Prophet and Wizard, Toshiba > + Portege G900, Asus P526, and O2 XDA Zinc. > + > + With this driver you will be able to use UBI and create a ubifs on th= e > + device, so you may wish to consider enabling UBI and UBIFS as well. > + > + These devices ship with the Mys/Sandisk SAFTL formatting, for which > + there is currently no mtd parser, so you may want to use command line > + partitioning to segregate write-protected blocks. On the Treo680, th= e > + first five erase blocks (256K each) are write-protected, followed by > + the block containing the saftl partition table. This is probably > + typical. Why do add this to drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig instead of drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig lige DOCG3 does? --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-lmy/62LDldhiub1lyqST Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPIrH3AAoJECmIfjd9wqK0yfEQAJTlDc9ep1vvP+hIGaa77J0P kF4cW7kK3F+zyyznUTLVfeeDi2B5DWREj5VYNgtaXRzr0HlBgLiWJc8FzeYTwnN/ MKKhjz8Paq7QrlFMozFN9+TcKud7LORhCf1HZL5mZsQv/5qcPXXCc+7sMewi5r28 8z39+Acvbf9wI7M5ciS8p8Klp3hyumYMiiPfhhibr4rftVLdB9FlFTIxoI89507n ooJkC1hZ3Hn0xGImdVixAm8+B4muRIY6lQ/nKjMEoeh/xy4oS9pXXz0DeeGaR0p/ BCyroE/p9gk8i6ggkZ+vF8UxL3GDaP++7xsejECCx3jee+zCRP/ikytBbquvAV5A 6LDnDH1Xiu3mXOAOB2WLz2PI0lmtMFoedmiOxrUYWDa2ghYy6zHDEm7bbReDs43J qtDk6EG0K0GLvBZLCSoqSlQjR+W14q5MKjmseJWLrYuk28bTwBQN5LyUSA2p7V+0 656KOEb09Iuz8ujEkljgJaOQ2nqHjzfzjwC9wUcmxghNK0AoEJXtb433G/0I2Pl4 CRzgrn/aE2vjKZiyHBbOBeoWJOtALHTM+tBR/kbgjKIDQyXyZ0om5Xqj46W7kipd MyhH4S+yNFtm4qVqDKXb5PK0B0kEva5C7ZHarVWsL1DtJW44pVU3qqMyXbrmunbE G37M5M4tAg8o3O5kGqbv =zj8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lmy/62LDldhiub1lyqST--