[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] axonram: 1st version

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:31:13AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:06:13AM +0100, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This patch implements access to Axon's DDR2 memory via character and block
> > devices.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This seems generic to me. Have you considered using the MTD subsystem
> instead of doing this specific driver?
> 
> phram will do almost what you're looking for, won't it? Main difference
> is that it will ioremap uncachable, so you might want to change that
> (i.e. make a cached ram backend for MTD instead).

Interesting.  That sounds like a cool idea, but we'd need to add xip
support to mtd to get on par feature-wise.