From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.arcor.de", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE83DDDFB for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:10:50 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20070613061152.GF16148@localhost.localdomain> References: <8ac5664208e0f59329b62ac2138bbc8c@kernel.crashing.org> <466312C2.4090200@ru.mvista.com> <548a7e11ffb577f6395b8f5a9c2fba2d@kernel.crashing.org> <466323EF.5040807@ru.mvista.com> <1181228442.2785.60.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <18fbfbaf113ab76b602d279848d9b405@kernel.crashing.org> <20070612044459.GD4198@localhost.localdomain> <9e1a55ac71a2ecf5155d2fddf547025e@kernel.crashing.org> <20070613031615.GC16148@localhost.localdomain> <96f5b23c4f53e986e8caa2156f149cd8@kernel.crashing.org> <20070613061152.GF16148@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <40446e5131495e077da798bc54843b2a@kernel.crashing.org> From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:10:42 +0200 To: David Gibson Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , Milton Miller List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >> 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. Doesn't it show it in sysfs, or in the dmesg at least? Maybe some other important stuff is there, too. Segher