From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.67]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KVYjK-0005Ci-UN for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:27:07 +0000 Received: from [24.41.66.60] (helo=[10.0.1.3]) by elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KVYjI-0004GZ-7s for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:27:05 -0400 Message-ID: <48AB3AA7.60801@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:27:03 -0700 From: Bruce Leonard MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , All, Over the course of the last several months, I've been working on adding support to the kernel for MTD devices that exceed 2GiB in size. In my particular case I have a need for 8GiB of NAND flash that appears as a single device. I'm now ready to submit my (first ever) patch (please be kind :) ). Seriously, I've been on this list a LOT during this time and I've gotten nothing but great support, thank you to the entire list. A couple of comments. First and foremost, these patches don't completely change the MTD layer. Due to my in-experience outside of what I was focused on (NAND/UBI/UBIFS/MTDCHAR) I felt it was best if I restricted my changes to what I knew. If the community feels I need to take these changes into the rest of the kernel please advise. Secondly, there were changes that I needed to make in mtd-utils, but I again only focused on the UBI sub-set. mtd-utils no longer builds because of the changes, but I really do NOT feel qualified to make changes to the rest of mtd-utils as they're tools I don't use and don't understand. The changes in mtd-utils are the same changes as in .../include/linux/mtd/mtd.h and .../include/mtd/mtd-abi.h. If anyone has a suggestion as to how I should handle mtd-utils I would appreciate it. Thanks again to everyone on the list who's answered my endless stupid questions. Bruce