Coool!! Now I have the flash driver registering itself and telling me all about the number of partitions on my flash etc. etc. I have the flash device in the /dev directory. Now, how do I use them? I remember using them before using the dd command.
Thank you, Navin. -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:29 PM To: Navin Boppuri Cc: Linuxppc-Embedded (E-mail) Subject: Re: Flash Driver In message <3A494DE356A49A40B37442E1E0D9F3B5063418 at ptah.ad.newisys.com> you wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to set up and use the flash driver in the 2.4.x > Linux kernel. I see a CFI and non-CFI support for the AMD flash chips. I You mean the driver we maintain? > am using an AMD flash chip on my board. Which one of the drivers do I > load? How are these initialized? For AMD chips, configure: CONFIG_FLASH=y CONFIG_AMD_FLASH=y Add a "partition" scheme for your board to "drivers/char/flash_config.c"; see the comment in this file. There is no more configuration needed (assuming you are booting from PPCBoot, which will pass the necessary parameters to the Linux kernel [physical start address and size of the flash memory]). > I have not been able to find any documentation on this. Any help is very > appreciated. Just ask :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Q: How do you spell "onomatopoeia"? A: The way it sounds. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
