[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 1/3] external/common: Teach ARM code to erase 'mtd chips'

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 8 17:50:22 AEDT 2016


Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> Currently the arch flash code for all architectures can only perform
> chip erases if there is a real flash driver attached.
>
> With increasing use of MTD on both host and BMC this code needs to know
> how to behave of the backend of blocklevel is MTD.
>
> This patch teaches the ARM specific code to pass an erase for the full
> size of the chip down the stack. This can be optimised into a chip erase
> within the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>

Thanks, series merged to master as of e5720d3fe94f5b85c374520b89fb8fbb2143df94

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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