From: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
To: Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Using mtdblock as root device
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:07:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306180700.A5214@stm.lbl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01030614494400.02338@rob>; from rob@sysgo.de on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:37:48PM +0100
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:37:48PM +0100, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> 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},
Just {"mtdblock", 0x1f00} will suffice, because any number
appended will be converted to an integer and be added to the
base number given.
Check the implementation of name_to_kdev_t in init/main.c for
details.
dave...
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2001-03-06 11:38 Using mtdblock as root device Robert Kaiser
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2001-03-06 13:37 ` Robert Kaiser
2001-03-07 2:07 ` David Schleef [this message]
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2001-03-06 14:14 ` Robert Kaiser
2001-03-06 14:28 ` David Woodhouse
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