[RFC][PATCH] mtd: bcm47part driver for BCM47XX chipsets

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 08:43:25 EDT 2012


2012/8/28 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 18:07 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 00:30 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> > This driver provides parser detecting partitions on BCM47XX flash
>> > memories. It has many differences in comparision to older BCM63XX, like:
>> > 1) Different CFE with no more trivial MAGICs
>> > 2) More partitions types (board_data, ML, POT)
>> > 3) Supporting more than 1 flash on a device
>> > which resulted in decision of writing new parser.
>> >
>> > It uses generic mtd interface and was successfully tested with Netgear
>> > WNDR4500 router which has 2 flash memories: serial one and NAND one.
>>
>> Would you please send a defconfig which I could use to compile-test
>> this?
>
> Also, why did you decide to add one more bcm partitions parser instead
> of extending the existing one to support more types?

Artem: attached is config I use for compiling kernel for WNDR4500. Is
that what you needed?

-- 
Rafał
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