[Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/2] mtd: physmap: add physmap_unmapped_area() for no-mmu XIP

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 07:33, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 19:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> if we delve a bit, what you're referring to is only possible i think
>> if this change is merged (we posted this back in Jan w/no feedback):
>>   mtd-physmap: add support users can assign the probe type in board files
>>
>> otherwise, there's no way of declaring a physmap of a parallel nor
>> flash and having it end up with read-only capabilities ...
>
> Hm, yeah -- that one looks sane enough. I can merge that, although part
> 1 of that 2-part series I still object to because I don't *want*
> different architectures to use different config symbols for the same
> thing. Driver code shouldn't have to cope with that.

the two arent really dependent on each other.  i'll probably just
change the Blackfin code to also enable the XIP_KERNEL symbol and
forget about the whole damned mess.
-mike