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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jan Rovins <Jan.Rovins@radisys.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Steve Ferri <steve.ferri@radisys.com>
Subject: Re: MTD on a Motorola MPCN765 ? (32 bit linux and 64 bit flash)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:18:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32329.990613111@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1BD619B2A58D41197990050DA2C08E40258E4@SLINK12>


Jan.Rovins@radisys.com said:
>  I was using partitions before, mostly to isolate & protect the boot
> image. Can I have a setup that uses separately mapped devices and
> multiple partitions at the same time? (I am having trouble visualizing
> this) 

Yeah, that's fine. You just call add_mtd_partitions() twice.


>  Separate chip mappings also would imply that I would have to alter
> the read(), write() copy_to/from() functions to skip over the bytes
> that would show up in the other mapping, since my address lines are
> wired up to treat the four chips as one range.

Yep.


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dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-23 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-22 19:59 MTD on a Motorola MPCN765 ? (32 bit linux and 64 bit flash) Jan Rovins
2001-05-23 10:18 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-22  0:57 Jan Rovins
2001-05-22  1:16 ` David Woodhouse

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