[PATCH] [RFC] mtd/uclinux: support ROM and allow passing the base address

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue Oct 9 04:44:18 EDT 2012


Hi Greg,

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:29:46PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> On 09/10/12 01:25, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >This allows to put the filesystem at a defined address in ROM allowing
> >to save more precious RAM.
> >
> >I think it's save to default to ROM because the intention of using the
> >uclinux map is to use a romfs and so mtd-ram doesn't give you anything
> >that mtd-rom doesn't.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K÷nig <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> 
> Looks good to me, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg at uclinux.org>
> 
> Couple of things to be aware of. Artem currently has a couple of
> patches against this file (looks like at least 1 of them is currently
> in linux-next). It will probably conflict with your changes, should
> be easy enough to fix up.
If you tell me a branch to test, I can do so.

Thanks
Uwe

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