starting address of mtd device

Mak Kar lin_mkar at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 19 17:55:32 EDT 2004


So, basically If an application gets address as input,
it needs a board map driver to figure out which mtd
device this address belongs to.
So writing a board specific map driver seems a good
solution....


--- Josh Boyer <jdub at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:01, Mak Kar wrote:
> > "cat /proc/mtd" would give me just the size of
> device
> > and erase size.
> > how can I get the starting address in flash of any
> > single mtd device?
> 
> The physical addresses for flash are usually
> provided by the user in the
> form of a board map driver.  If there isn't a
> specific map driver for
> your board, see physmap.c.
> 
> In other words, if you don't tell MTD where to look,
> it won't find
> anything. :)
> 
> josh
> 
> 



		
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