[PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jun 13 16:12:54 EST 2007
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:50:25PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > So, what you're suggesting is a subnode for each described partition?
>
> I'm saying this is a reasonable way to describe the regions
> of flash the firmware itself cares about.
>
> This isn't anything new; it is done like this on some
> Apple systems, for example.
>
> > Seems an awfully verbose way of going about it,
>
> Not verbose, but flexible, and in line with everything
> else about the device tree.
>
> > and I don't see what
> > it buys us over the partitions/partition-names pair of properties.
>
> It is extensible. It makes parsing trivial. It
> represents a flash partition in a way similar to how
> a "whole" flash device is represented.
Hrm, ok. Between you and BenH you've convinced me. I'll try to come
up with something. I think we'll still need to support the old
properties as backwards compatibility thing.
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