Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: MTD and Adapter ROMs | Date | Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:14:08 +0100 |
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jfbeam@bluetopia.net said: > Well, just having documentation on how all the spooge in drivers/mtd > actually goes together would go along way to helping people use it.
Bah. That takes all the fun out of it.
> The flash chip is an SST 39SF010. It will appear somewhere in PCI > memory space once I reenable the adapter ROM. It is a JEDEC compilant > device. I have some code from SST for programming it, but I'd rather > go the general route instead of the one-shot flash-and-run module.
> I think it'll be as "simple" as adding the ID to jedec.c. Load chips/ > *, maps/hpt-rom (doctored physmap to enable the rom and use it's > location), and then see if I can get mtdchar to drive the mess.
Basically right. Once your map driver has successfully probed the chip and registered the MTD device, you should be able to open /dev/mtd0 and read, write and ioctl(MEMERASE) it. Not necessarily in that order.
-- dwmw2
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