max size of MTD?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jan 8 08:03:28 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 17:19 +0530, Vinit Agnihotri wrote:
> U have mentioned of creating 1 MTD device of 6GB by mtdconcat. However I am
> curious to know how many mtd devices u've concatenated to make 6GB
> possible??? I am using mtdramm as test device but I am not able to allocate
> memory over 1GB. So no question of having even more devices to make it above
> 5GB. Can you focus on the same question & help me. How can I allocate more
> memory than 4GB??? Or how can I create 6GB MTD device.
> My current test machine is AMD 64bit opteron with 1GB memory.

He has 6GiB of real flash memory, not DRAM.  Allocating more than 1GiB
of DRAM for mtdram will likely take more work.

josh





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