parse_cmdline_partitions equivalent for map_info

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 18 October 2002 13:14:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> neuber at convergence.de said:
> > Now I'm looking for the same feature to pass the physically
> > informations to the kernel (struct map_info). I could add this simply
> > to the cmdline.c file based on the parse_cmdline_partitions function.
> 
> That seems like a relatively sensible addition to physmap.c. You could make 
> it take the probe type that way too...
> 
>  'physmap=0xe0000000,0x100000,16,cfi'

Hmm, somewhere in my collection of yet-to-be-committed patches, I have
a variant of the physmap driver that does exactly this and is capable
of mapping up to eight independent devices. Interested?

Jörn

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