RE: File System on 64-bit-bus-width Flash memory

MTD has support for 64-bit bus. They have not pushed the code the main tree.
Goto www.infradead.org and checkout the CVS tree. (I have not personally
used this code version. I implemented modified MTD myself last December)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
[mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of Wolfgang
Denk
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:14 AM
To: Sangmoon Kim
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: File System on 64-bit-bus-width Flash memory



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[ref] you wrote:

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Hi,
I want to make a flash file system on a custom MPC755 board

with a 64-bit (bus width) flash memory.

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I set CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_BUSWIDTH = 8 at kernel configure, and

when it boots the following message appears.

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physmap flash device: 400000 at 7c000000
genprobe_new_chip called with unsupported buswidth 8

Seems your MTD drivers are missing support for 64 bit buswidth.

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Is it possible to make a flash file system with a flash memory

of  64 bit bus width? If possible, what's the method? Please let me know.

We implemented this long ago. See our kernel source tree at
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/

For example:

...
TQM8260 flash bank 0: Using static image partition definition
Creating 4 MTD partitions on "TQM8260 Bank 0":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "ppcboot"
0x00040000-0x00100000 : "kernel"
0x00100000-0x00400000 : "initrd"
0x00400000-0x00800000 : "jffs"
...

Wolfgang Denk

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