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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c | 31 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 4ac2d641fcb..b3bd36668db 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ IBM Corp. (c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>, Freescale Semiconductor, FSL SOC and 32-bit additions +(c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc. + Flash chip node definition May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet. @@ -1693,6 +1695,43 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. }; }; + g) Flash chip nodes + + Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state + file systems on embedded devices. + + Required properties: + + - device_type : has to be "rom" + - compatible : Should specify what this ROM device is compatible with + (i.e. "onenand"). Currently, this is most likely to be "direct-mapped" + (which corresponds to the MTD physmap mapping driver). + - regs : Offset and length of the register set (or memory mapping) for + the device. + + Recommended properties : + + - bank-width : Width of the flash data bus in bytes. Required + for the NOR flashes (compatible == "direct-mapped" and others) ONLY. + - partitions : Several pairs of 32-bit values where the first value is + partition's offset from the start of the device and the second one is + partition size in bytes with LSB used to signify a read only + partititon (so, the parition size should always be an even number). + - partition-names : The list of concatenated zero terminated strings + representing the partition names. + + Example: + + flash@ff000000 { + device_type = "rom"; + compatible = "direct-mapped"; + regs = <ff000000 01000000>; + bank-width = <4>; + partitions = <00000000 00f80000 + 00f80000 00080001>; + partition-names = "fs\0firmware"; + }; + More devices will be defined as this spec matures. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile index bae874626fc..ee7c6d48af7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/Makefile @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MMIO_NVRAM) += mmio_nvram.o obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_SOC) += fsl_soc.o obj-$(CONFIG_TSI108_BRIDGE) += tsi108_pci.o tsi108_dev.o obj-$(CONFIG_QUICC_ENGINE) += qe_lib/ +obj-$(CONFIG_MTD) += rom.o ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE),y) obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_I8259) += i8259.o diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bf5b3f10e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/rom.c @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +/* + * ROM device registration + * + * (C) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc. This file is licensed under + * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program + * is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express + * or implied. + */ + +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <asm/of_device.h> + +static int __init powerpc_flash_init(void) +{ + struct device_node *node = NULL; + + /* + * Register all the devices which type is "rom" + */ + while ((node = of_find_node_by_type(node, "rom")) != NULL) { + if (node->name == NULL) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "powerpc_flash_init: found 'rom' " + "device, but with no name, skipping...\n"); + continue; + } + of_platform_device_create(node, node->name, NULL); + } + return 0; +} + +arch_initcall(powerpc_flash_init); |