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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-08 17:25:42 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-08 17:26:00 +0200 |
commit | 5af8c4e0fac9838428bd718040b664043a05f37c (patch) | |
tree | 75a01d98ed244db45fe3c734c4a81c1a3d92ac37 /Documentation/blockdev | |
parent | 46e0bb9c12f4bab539736f1714cbf16600f681ec (diff) | |
parent | 577c9c456f0e1371cbade38eaf91ae8e8a308555 (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into sched/urgent
Merge reason: update to latest upstream to queue up fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt | 84 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX b/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX index 86f054c4701..c08df56dd91 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ cpqarray.txt - info on using Compaq's SMART2 Intelligent Disk Array Controllers. floppy.txt - notes and driver options for the floppy disk driver. +mflash.txt + - info on mGine m(g)flash driver for linux. nbd.txt - info on a TCP implementation of a network block device. paride.txt diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1f610ecf698 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +This document describes m[g]flash support in linux. + +Contents + 1. Overview + 2. Reserved area configuration + 3. Example of mflash platform driver registration + +1. Overview + +Mflash and gflash are embedded flash drive. The only difference is mflash is +MCP(Multi Chip Package) device. These two device operate exactly same way. +So the rest mflash repersents mflash and gflash altogether. + +Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports +2 different operation (ATA, IO) modes. ATA mode doesn't need any new +driver and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's +one chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have +IDE interface. + +Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode. +A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm, +write confirm) +B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface. +C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash. + +2. Reserved area configuration +If host boot from mflash, usually needs raw area for boot loader image. All of +the mflash's block device operation will be taken this value as start offset. +Note that boot loader's size of reserved area and kernel configuration value +must be same. + +3. Example of mflash platform driver registration +Working mflash is very straight forward. Adding platform device stuff to board +configuration file is all. Here is some pseudo example. + +static struct mg_drv_data mflash_drv_data = { + /* If you want to polling driver set to 1 */ + .use_polling = 0, + /* device attribution */ + .dev_attr = MG_BOOT_DEV +}; + +static struct resource mg_mflash_rsc[] = { + /* Base address of mflash */ + [0] = { + .start = 0x08000000, + .end = 0x08000000 + SZ_64K - 1, + .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM + }, + /* mflash interrupt pin */ + [1] = { + .start = IRQ_GPIO(84), + .end = IRQ_GPIO(84), + .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ + }, + /* mflash reset pin */ + [2] = { + .start = 43, + .end = 43, + .name = MG_RST_PIN, + .flags = IORESOURCE_IO + }, + /* mflash reset-out pin + * If you use mflash as storage device (i.e. other than MG_BOOT_DEV), + * should assign this */ + [3] = { + .start = 51, + .end = 51, + .name = MG_RSTOUT_PIN, + .flags = IORESOURCE_IO + } +}; + +static struct platform_device mflash_dev = { + .name = MG_DEV_NAME, + .id = -1, + .dev = { + .platform_data = &mflash_drv_data, + }, + .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(mg_mflash_rsc), + .resource = mg_mflash_rsc +}; + +platform_device_register(&mflash_dev); |