OF compatible MTD platform RAM driver ?

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Mar 31 05:15:46 EST 2008


>> Could we agree on a name ? I'd like to submit a new patch.
>
> For ROMs I think just plain "rom" should be sufficient.

Yes.

> For RAMs we
> need something to indicate that it's memory but intended for secondary
> storage, not as main memory.

How it is intended to be used is not a property of the hardware, so
that information doesn't belong in the device tree at all.  The Linux
platform code should handle this, I imagine.


Segher




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