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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:39:14 -0600
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Subject: Re: Q: MTD RAM in OF Device Tree
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> wrote=
:
> Hello Albrecht,
>
> (adding linux-mtd)
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:59:00PM +0200, Albrecht Dre=DF wrote:
>>
>> is there a standard way to define a ram chip (in my case a battery-buffe=
red
>> nv ram, attached to the 5200's Local Bus) in the OF tree, and are there =
any
>> drivers (on 2.6.29.1) which pick up the chip/partition specification for=
 mtd?
>> Does such a driver exist, or do I have to write one (probably based on
>> plat-ram.c?)? =A0I think of something like
>
> I wrote such a driver (yet without partitioning support) and I am trying =
to get
> it mainline, just didn't get any comments so far:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23557/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23556/
>
> I'd be happy if you could give it a try and donate some
> {Acked|Tested|Reviewed}-by tags. Maybe this will help for my next try to =
get
> it mainline.

I missed them when you posted them.  I'll go look now.
--=20
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.