Setting up MTD via command line?

[Jamie Guinan]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jamie Guinan wrote:

> > Can anyone explain, or is there docs on how to setup MTD via command
> > line, which I think was introduced so 
> > you don't need to write your own driver for e.g. embedded processors
> > such as ARM.
> 
> Hi Bo,
> 
> I found it in the config help for "Command line partition table parsing",
> and also in the comments in cmdlinepart.c.
> 
> For the LogicPD board (lpd7a404 here), I used this kernel command-line,
> 
>   boot console=ttyAM1 root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 \
>     mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:256k,256k,1536k,2048k

Erm, that only gets access to 4MB (one of my test boards has only 4MB,
which is why I tested it as above).  To use the full 16MB of flash on 
some LogicPD boards,

   mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:256k,256k,1536k,14336k

-Jamie