MPC 8349e-mITX and MTD/Flash
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Wed Apr 11 02:48:53 EST 2007
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Benedict, Michael wrote:
>
>>> Having said that, it seems that the kernel now supports defining the
>>> physmap via the OF tree. Is that true?
>
>> Initially I was going to try and define this via the OF tree. However,
>> the documentation indicated that the only supported device_type was
>> "rom" so I did not persue that route.
>
> There was long discussion about using "mtd" and other types -- people
> were complaining that "mtd" was too Linux-centric term, so finally we
> ended up with "rom". It doesn't imply that ROMs are the only supported
> devices. :-)
Okee dokee. I'll add it to my to-do list.
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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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