Sequoia NAND - others missing?

Steve Heflin sheflin at newagemicro.com
Mon Feb 18 02:27:22 EST 2008


Are there other devices (beside the NAND Flash Controller) that exist 
on the AMCC-440EPx chip and are not supported by the current 
Linux-2.6.25 ARCH=powerpc?

thanks for your help,
Steve

At 08:18 AM 2/17/2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:39:43 -0500
>Steve Heflin <sheflin at newagemicro.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't see where the new powerpc architecture and drivers/mtd/nand
> > contains support for the NAND chip on the Sequoia platform.  We have
>
>It's not.
>
> > Is the Sequoia's NAND Flash Controller supported in the current 
> Linux-2.6.25?
>
>No.
>
>There are a couple different patches floating around for it, all of
>which need work.  The driver is drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c and work needs
>to be done to parse a device tree and present the proper platform
>devices so that driver will work.  Stefan has something like this
>somewhere, I've just been lax in getting it into my tree.
>
>Too late for .25, but I have 4 boards that use this now so I'll be a
>bit more interested in getting it into .26.
>
>josh




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