[PATCH] adding ROM chips to device tree

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:55 +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> In fact, currently this description can handle only flash devices mapped into memory in a linear way.
>  For NAND flashes we'll need a whole lot different description but let's solve problems as they arise
>  since I'm not aware of any ppc board w/ NAND chip yet :)

Um...  all of the 440EP and 440EPx boards have NAND.  And those have
been around for a while...

> +
> +    Required properties:
> +
> +     - device_type : has to be "rom"

Why "rom" instead of "NOR"?

> +     - compatible : Should be the name of the MTD driver. Currently, this is
> +       most likely to be "physmap".
> +     - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device.

reg doesn't really describe a register set here.  It's the overall
memory space for flash.

> +
> +    Recommended properties :
> +
> +     - bank-width : Width of the flash data bus in bytes. Must be specified
> +       for the NOR flashes.

This is a required property, not a recommended one.

josh