+/**
+ * @mtd: the device
+ * @erase: the erase info
+ * Returns 0 if erase successful or -ERRNO if an error occurred
+ */
+static int powernv_flash_erase(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct erase_info *erase)
+{
+	int rc;
+
+	erase->state = MTD_ERASING;
+
+	/* todo: register our own notifier to do a true async implementation */
+	rc =  powernv_flash_async_op(mtd, FLASH_OP_ERASE, erase->addr,
+			erase->len, NULL, NULL);
+
+	if (rc) {
+		erase->fail_addr = erase->addr;
+		erase->state = MTD_ERASE_FAILED;
+	} else {
+		erase->state = MTD_ERASE_DONE;
+	}
+	mtd_erase_callback(erase);

+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * powernv_flash_set_driver_info - Fill the mtd_info structure and docg3
+ * structure @pdev: The platform device
+ * @mtd: The structure to fill
+ */
+static int powernv_flash_set_driver_info(struct device *dev,
+		struct mtd_info *mtd)
+{
+	u64 size;
+	u32 erase_size;
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "ibm,flash-block-size",
+			&erase_size);
+	if (rc) {
+		dev_err(dev, "couldn't get resource block size information\n");
+		return rc;
+	}
+
+	rc = of_property_read_u64(dev->of_node, "reg", &size);
+	if (rc) {
+		dev_err(dev, "couldn't get resource size information\n");
+		return rc;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Going to have to check what details I need to set and how to
+	 * get them
+	 */
+	mtd->name = of_get_property(dev->of_node, "name", NULL);
+	mtd->type = MTD_NORFLASH;
+	mtd->flags = MTD_WRITEABLE;
+	mtd->size = size;
+	mtd->erasesize = erase_size;
+	mtd->writebufsize = mtd->writesize = 1;
+	mtd->owner = THIS_MODULE;
+	mtd->_erase = powernv_flash_erase;
+	mtd->_read = powernv_flash_read;
+	mtd->_write = powernv_flash_write;
+	mtd->dev.parent = dev;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * powernv_flash_probe
+ * @pdev: platform device
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM, -ENXIO on error
+ */
+static int powernv_flash_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
+	struct powernv_flash *data;
+	int ret;
+
+	data = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!data) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	data->mtd.priv = data;