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

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Uwe,

On 10/09/2012 06:44 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:29:46PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> On 09/10/12 01:25, Uwe Kleine-K÷nig 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├Ànig <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.

Sure. All three patches I sent to the linux-mtd list are here:

The following changes since commit 979570e02981d4a8fc20b3cc8fd651856c98ee9d:
   Linus Torvalds (1):
         Linux 3.6-rc7

are available in the git repository at:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu.git cfmmu

Greg Ungerer (3):
       mtd: fix wrong usage of ioremap_nocache() in uclinux.c map driver
       mtd: allow uclinux map driver to be used on any ColdFire CPU platform
       mtd: clean up uclinux.c map driver

  drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig   |    2 +-
  drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c |   42 
+++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)


As far as I can see Artem has pushed the first 2 into for linux-next,
but not the third. I am hoping he hops in here and lets us know what
his intentions are with the third...

Regards
Greg


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