From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:40:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:40:17 -0400 Received: from quattro.sventech.com ([205.252.248.110]:27654 "HELO quattro.sventech.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:40:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:40:12 -0400 From: Johannes Erdfelt To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Mike Jadon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PCI NVRAM Memory Card Message-ID: <20010810114011.X3126@sventech.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622101907.03ac21b0@192.168.0.5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:24:10AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Mike Jadon writes: > > > My company has released a PCI NVRAM memory card but we haven't developed a Linux > > > > driver for it yet. We want the driver to be open to developers to build upon. > > Is there a specific path we should follow with this being our goal? > > You might want to check out the development of the mtd subsystem. > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ > > This is probably what you want to write a driver for for your NVRAM PCI card. Not really. In their case, it's a bunch of standard SDRAM on a PCI card with a battery backup. It's not flash. A block device is all that's needed. JE