From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: /dev/flash and MTD From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 16:38:20 PDT." <3D54526C.80703@redswitch.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:37:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20020810083753.BA6F610DE1@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dear Shawn, in message <3D54526C.80703@redswitch.com> you wrote: > > WINDOW_SIZE. What does this difference mean? If I know the physical > start address of flash memory and the size, is there a generic map > driver available to do the probing? My general question is "do we need a > MTD map driver for each board, especially for those custom boards?". Actually we don't. Set the config option CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS which allows the use of a generic mapping driver and passing the partitioning info from the command line. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Do not follow where the path may lead....go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/