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Subject: Re: MTD partitioning rewrite 
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jonas.holmberg@axis.com said:
>  Would it still be possible to make a logical partition that extends
> over several flash chips (e.g. one big partition of two chips)?

As possible as it is now - the chip probe code has to detect them all in 
one go and make a single MTD device out of them. Otherwise, you have to 
hack up your own wrapper anyway. 

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dwmw2