mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Tue Sep 6 11:17:19 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 September 2005 15:46:18 +0100, rpurdie at infradead.org wrote:
> > 
> > -	if (machine_is_husky()) {
> > +	if (machine_is_husky() || machine_is_borzoi()) {
> >  		/* Need to use small eraseblock size for backward compatibility */
> >  		sharpsl_mtd->flags |= MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS;
> >  	}
> 
> With Ferenc's patch in, MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS has lost its effect.  I
> guess we will remove that flag sometime in the near future.

I'm running mainline mtd so I guess I haven't seen this yet.

The problem is that on the Sharp Zaurus series we're stuck with a ROM
bootloader that flashes the partitions in a certain way. The above flag
allowed us to stay compatible with that and is quite important. I'm not
sure where this leaves us...

Thanks for the heads up though.

Richard





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