cfi probe for two different flash devices

Rod Boyce rod_boyce at stratexnet.com
Tue Oct 7 04:51:40 EST 2003


In fact is was so easy that I went from knowing of the existence of the
MTD subsystem to booting a Linux kernel and file-system on a custom map
in 2 days. You MTD guys have done a fantastic job.

Regards,
Rod Boyce.

PS sorry for the wasted channel space but I had to say something.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2 at infradead.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 6:16 a.m.
> Subject: Re: cfi probe for two different flash devices
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:10 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > This question would be best asked of the MTD folks (cc'd), but I
> > think you'll need a customized "map" function that recognizes these
> > two FLASH device types and creates the appropriate MTD sub-devices
> > appropriately.
>
> What Gary said.
>
> If you poke around in drivers/mtd/maps you'll find useful examples of
> such, including how to concatenate them together into one logical MTD
> device and have a file system spanning them both, etc.

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