From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Daniel Ann <ktdann@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Problem partitioning discontinuous physical start address
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:24:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050930092409.GA19495@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b7ca6570509300036r47c410a4la8f8598794a17041@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 30 September 2005 16:36:06 +0900, Daniel Ann wrote:
>
> Im trying to partion my flash using partioning support (ie. parse
> partition from the kernel argument) but for board with 2x intel flash
> linearly connected, I can partition it no problem.
>
> Problem exist with board with 2x intel flash (16MB each) non-linearly connected.
> One is located at 0x7C00_0000 and another at 0xFF00_0000. If I give
> 0x7C00_0000 as a physical start address with length as 0x84000000 (ie.
> (0xFFFF_FFFF - 7C00_0000) + 1)and select support for non-linear
> mappings of flash chips, I get an error saying that its too large.
>
> What options do I have without having to write my own physmap.c. I've
> had one before when I was using 2.4 kernel, but having moved to 2.6,
> I'm trying not to make any custom changes and trying to stick with the
> main stream.
>
> Any advice would be welcome. thanks.
You could try concat. iirc, it was created for this purpose.
Jörn
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 7:36 Problem partitioning discontinuous physical start address Daniel Ann
2005-09-30 9:24 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-10-01 0:38 ` Daniel Ann
2005-10-03 10:49 ` Jörn Engel
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