[PATCH 1/2] clps711x/ceiva: port to use physmap flash

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov dbaryshkov at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 01:17:31 EDT 2011


On 6/3/11, Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:02 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> On 6/3/11, Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 15:54 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> >> Port ceiva machine to use physmap flash instead of custom mapping
>> >> driver
>> >> (which even can't compile cleanly with current kernels). All info
>> >> is gathered from drivers/mtd/maps/ceiva.c. Compile tested only.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/ceiva.c |   60
>> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>  1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Is ceiva used and not dead? May be we could kill it completely?
>>
>> No functional changes to board file since start of git history. Also
>> I don't know how useful can be contemporary Linux on 4 MiB of RAM
>
> I also noticed that no one is interested in this board for long time. So
> I suggest to remove ceiva support altogether via some arm tree.

Anyway the patch removing mtd support can be pushed via mtd tree
(there is really no point on mtd/maps/ceiva.c), and removing ceiva
depends on Russell's decision.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry



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