On Apr 28 2009, Kumar Gala wrote:

I'm pretty sure we need this for old initrd style ramdisks so I'd prefer 
we leave it enabled.

Oh, for oldstyle it is needed. You're right. It is better to keep it in
the defconfig. Just drop the hunk from the patch that I sent you.

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Thanks. The MTD & PHYMAP_COMPAT are the things that have been bugging
me and my main reason to keep with the bleeding edge kernels is to
get things whey they were (regarding mtd) as in kernel 2.6.28.

As I have no experience with MTD devices, I would appreciate a
reference to their workings... All that I know is that all my
/dev/mtd* devices are gone if I boot a 2.6.29* kernel.

Of course, I can do a git bisect process (since the MTD subsystem
doesn't work as it did in the past even if I enable PHYMAP_COMPAT and
put the same settings there, quite unfortunately).

ok.. I killed my kurobox long ago so can't be much help here.

Oh... :-(

I will post the problems that I get with MTD on my kurobox so that
people from both the linux-mtd/linuxppc-dev lists can see what is
happening and suggest some fixes.


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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