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From: Michael Stumpf <michaelstumpf@yahoo.com>
To: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: MTD, generic physmap memory, MTD_BLOCK
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:48:07 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001213164807.18924.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)


I'm working in embedded LinuxPPC on a system with low RAM and ROM -- 6 meg RAM,
8 meg flash ROM.  It seems like that MTD may provide (or almost so) a method
for mapping memory space in as a block device.  It already appears to sort-of
do that, but I was wondering if full support for booting off of non-CFI
compliant, but transparently mapped in, memories is either in place now
(doesn't seem to be there) or is planned for the future.

It's a trivial driver, and I'll write it / modify existing MTD code if
desired/needed, but it really seems important to have so that I can
execute-in-place from a cramfs partition in ROM (and also have this as my root
partition).

Thoughts?  Am I way off the mark here?

Regards-
Michael Stumpf



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Michael J. Stumpf                              
LinuxPPC enablement
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             reply	other threads:[~2000-12-13 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-13 16:48 Michael Stumpf [this message]
2000-12-13 19:02 ` MTD, generic physmap memory, MTD_BLOCK Nicolas Pitre
2000-12-16  1:04   ` Shane Nay
2000-12-17 22:24     ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-18 21:31       ` Shane Nay
2000-12-19  9:24         ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-18 22:35           ` Shane Nay
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-19 13:32 Michael Stumpf
2000-12-19  2:51 ` Shane Nay

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