On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:51:23AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> Is SLOF just exposing the user image part of the flash device? Or is it
> the raw flash device?
SLOF is exposing the raw flash device.
> I need to keep this quick, but am intrested in a few more details. My
> first reaction is
On Monday 12 January 2009, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Adrian Reber wrote:
> > The reason why I did not use mtd is that part of the flash is used by
> > the firmware image and I do not know if that works with mtd, if only a
> > part of the flash can be used. SLOF does also a "CRC" check over the
> > firm
Adrian Reber wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:52:56AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
Normally such drivers are written and mtd drivers.
If slof were not an of implementation I would just say put the right
properties on the node in the device tree, but the kernel should adapt
to real OF. It s
On Jan 10, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Adrian Reber wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:52:56AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
On Sun Jan 11 at 02:31:22 EST in 2009, Adrian Reber wrote:
This adds support for a simple character device to access the
flash for SLOF based systems like the PowerStation, QS2x and
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:52:56AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Sun Jan 11 at 02:31:22 EST in 2009, Adrian Reber wrote:
>> This adds support for a simple character device to access the
>> flash for SLOF based systems like the PowerStation, QS2x and
>> PXCAB. In the SLOF git there is a user spac
On Sun Jan 11 at 02:31:22 EST in 2009, Adrian Reber wrote:
This adds support for a simple character device to access the
flash for SLOF based systems like the PowerStation, QS2x and
PXCAB. In the SLOF git there is a user space program with
which the content of the flash for SLOF based systems ca
This adds support for a simple character device to access the
flash for SLOF based systems like the PowerStation, QS2x and
PXCAB. In the SLOF git there is a user space program with
which the content of the flash for SLOF based systems can
be displayed and modified. This can be used to add a Linux
i
