Problem partitioning discontinuous physical start address

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 30 September 2005 16:36:06 +0900, Daniel Ann wrote:
> 
> Im trying to partion my flash using partioning support (ie. parse
> partition from the kernel argument) but for board with 2x intel flash
> linearly connected, I can partition it no problem.
> 
> Problem exist with board with 2x intel flash (16MB each) non-linearly connected.
> One is located at 0x7C00_0000 and another at 0xFF00_0000. If I give
> 0x7C00_0000 as a physical start address with length as 0x84000000 (ie.
> (0xFFFF_FFFF - 7C00_0000) + 1)and select support for non-linear
> mappings of flash chips, I get an error saying that its too large.
> 
> What options do I have without having to write my own physmap.c. I've
> had one before when I was using 2.4 kernel, but having moved to 2.6,
> I'm trying not to make any custom changes and trying to stick with the
> main stream.
> 
> Any advice would be welcome. thanks.

You could try concat.  iirc, it was created for this purpose.

Jörn

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