Bug in physmap driver?

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 11:27:44 EDT 2009


Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh at wantstofly.org> wrote:

> The last useful address.  That's what the resource code expects, as
> e.g. two regions with start=00100000,end=00200000 and
> start=00200000,end=00300000 will conflict (registration of the second
> will fail), whereas if you change the end addresses to 001fffff and
> 002fffff, they will no longer conflict.

Okay, yes; you're right.  It no longer locks up.

Do you by any chance know what the 'width' field of struct physmap_flash_data
means?  Is it the total width of the data bus going to the flash chips?  Or is
it the width of each flash chip?

David



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