On Thursday 16 April 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:05 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: > > This patchset adds support to handle multiple non-identical chips in one > > flash device tree node. It also adds concat support to physmap_of. This > > makes it possible to support e.g. the Intel P30 48F4400 chip which > > internally consists of 2 non-identical NOR chips on one die. Additionally > > partitions now can span over multiple chips: > > > > mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support > > mtd/powerpc: Factor out MTD physmap bindings into mtd-physmap.txt > > mtd/powerpc: Describe multiple "reg" tuples usage > > > > v2 addresses all comments from Grant Likely, including factoring out the > > MTD dts bindings documentation into a separate file. > > > > v3 addresses all comments (again from Grant). > > Sorry for my ignorance, but could you please explain why regions > exists as an MTD concept? Why different regions could not be > represented as different MTD devices? The benefit is - simplicity.
The result of these multiple "reg" tuples *is* multiple MTD devices. Not sure if this explains your comment/question. Please let me know if you still have some comments. Thanks. Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
