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Subject: RE: OF compatible MTD platform RAM driver ?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:56:13 -0500
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Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008 18:02, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>=20
> Regarding non-volatility nothing prevents a user from using a=20
> volatile RAM as an MTD device, but there's little point in doing so.
> Would it be acceptable for the "linear-nvram" specification
> not to include > volatile RAM ? ROM chips would be excluded too. Is
that an issue ?

We actually use a volatile ram (SRAM) as an MTD device. We use it to
store info from bootloader and system specific values between resets.