Re: parse_cmdline_partitions equivalent for map_info

Frank Neuber
2002-10-23T09:51:52Z

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:44:45PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 October 2002 13:14:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > neuber@convergence.de said:
> > > Now I'm looking for the same feature to pass the physically
> > > informations to the kernel (struct map_info). I could add this simply
> > > to the cmdline.c file based on the parse_cmdline_partitions function.
> >
> > That seems like a relatively sensible addition to physmap.c. You could make
> > it take the probe type that way too...
> >
> > 'physmap=0xe0000000,0x100000,16,cfi'
>
> Hmm, somewhere in my collection of yet-to-be-committed patches, I have
> a variant of the physmap driver that does exactly this and is capable
> of mapping up to eight independent devices. Interested?
>
Yes, it would be nice to test your code :-)
Maybe we can do this more generic to add this to cmdline.c.
What do you think?
Frank

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