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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:11:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070613061152.GF16148@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96f5b23c4f53e986e8caa2156f149cd8@kernel.crashing.org>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:05:31AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>> Of course, Ebony has flash which is JEDEC rather than CFI probed, so 
> >>> I
> >>> have an interest in a binding for that, too.
> >>
> >> For JEDEC flash, you probably want extra properties
> >> for manufacturing ID and chip ID.  Also, you need
> >> to describe the block sizes in some way (on CFI, this
> >> can be probed; on JEDEC, not).  Anything else?
> >
> > Hrm.  At the moment it appears to work without supplying this
> > information for the Ebony flash...  I wonder if there are defaults in
> > the mtd layer or something.
> 
> MTD does a lot of heuristic probing.  It is pretty good,
> but it would be nice if you could skip that and hand it
> the exact values it needs.  Also, this information should
> be in the device tree no matter what, even if Linux
> doesn't use it yet ;-)

I agree.  Of course, this means figuring out what the values actually
are for Ebony.  I presently have no idea, since the heuristic probing
appears to work without problem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-13  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-02  4:30 [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800 Milton Miller
2007-06-02  7:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-03 16:10   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 17:36     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 18:03       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 18:25         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 18:36           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 18:46             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 19:16               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 21:04         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-04 12:34           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-04 14:37             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 14:49               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-07 14:53           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-07 15:49             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-07 14:47         ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-07 15:32           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-02  8:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 16:22   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 17:40     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 18:31       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 18:44         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 19:13           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 19:56             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 20:26               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-04  8:07                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 13:34                   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-07 15:00                 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-07 15:55                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-07 16:05                     ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-07 16:46                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-12  4:44                     ` David Gibson
2007-06-12 10:53                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13  3:16                         ` David Gibson
2007-06-13  5:05                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13  6:11                             ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-06-13  9:10                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  4:12                                 ` David Gibson
2007-06-15 11:22                                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  4:14                     ` David Gibson
2007-06-15  8:42                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  8:47                         ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15  8:59                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 21:12     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-04  8:11       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 13:16         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-04 12:41       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-04 14:49         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 15:54           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 17:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 17:45   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 18:18     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 18:43       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 18:59         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-03 19:48           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-03 20:10             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-04  8:02               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 19:40 ` Mark A. Greer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-01 23:20 Mark A. Greer
2007-06-02  8:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-04 20:56 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-06-05 20:35   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-05 21:11     ` Mark A. Greer
2007-06-06 12:41       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-07 15:08         ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-06  2:39   ` David Gibson
2007-06-07 13:30     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-12  4:42       ` David Gibson
2007-06-12 10:50         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13  6:12           ` David Gibson
2007-06-13  9:13             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13  9:19               ` David Gibson
2007-06-13  9:37                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14  4:29                   ` David Gibson
2007-06-14  8:00                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 12:39                     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-14 13:20                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 12:48           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-14 13:18             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 12:50         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-14 13:43           ` Segher Boessenkool

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