[PATCH 0/2] Add a MTD driver for OpenPower PNOR flash

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Apr 3 01:50:02 PDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 14:05 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This series implements a simple mtd device to allow access to the PNOR
> flash on OpenPower machines. The flash is accessed through firmware
> calls.
> 
> Patch 1/2 adds the Linux interface to these calls. Patch 2/2 adds a mtd
> driver that uses these calls.
> 
> Because there's two subsystems involved here, there are a couple of
> methods to merge this:
> 
>  1) The powerpc folks take 1/2, and the mtd folks take 2/2, to be
>     applied once 1/2 is available (Michael has created a topic branch for
>     this in the past, which can make things a little easier), or

Unfortunately the topic branch approach is problematic for this series, because
we already have changes to opal.h in powerpc-next that clash.

I can still make a topic branch, but it would have to include ~10 powerpc
commits prior to this patch.

>  2) One of the maintainers takes both patches, once the other has acked
>     their patch. I'd suggest that it goes through the powerpc tree in
>     this case, as that will be less likely to conflict.

If the mtd maintainers are happy with it this would be the easier approach in
this instance.

cheers





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