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| author | Sean Young <sean@mess.org> | 2005-06-16 09:49:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@mtd.linutronix.de> | 2005-11-06 20:08:54 +0100 |
| commit | e27a9960af0506d84b9ca9dd3874b7d88901f230 (patch) | |
| tree | cac8c7876c3917c301e663d82b3877aa7f9935ab /drivers/mtd/maps | |
| parent | 45ca1b509ea156e87c99e529821fb3b548e14fe3 (diff) | |
[MTD] Add Resident Flash Disk (RFD) support
This type of flash translation layer (FTL) is used by the Embedded BIOS
by General Software. It is known as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), see:
http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/maps')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/maps/ts5500_flash.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig index 44781a83b2e..aa5d71f8d81 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig @@ -97,14 +97,11 @@ config MTD_TS5500 depends on X86 && MTD_JEDECPROBE && MTD_PARTITIONS help This provides a driver for the on-board flash of the Technologic - System's TS-5500 board. The flash is split into 3 partitions + System's TS-5500 board. The 2MB flash is split into 3 partitions which are accessed as separate MTD devices. - mtd0 and mtd2 are the two BIOS drives. Unfortunately the BIOS - uses a proprietary flash translation layer from General Software, - which is not supported (the drives cannot be mounted). You can - create your own file system (jffs for example), but the BIOS - won't be able to boot from it. + mtd0 and mtd2 are the two BIOS drives, which use the resident + flash disk (RFD) flash translation layer. mtd1 allows you to reprogram your BIOS. BE VERY CAREFUL. diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/ts5500_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/ts5500_flash.c index 3ebd90f5650..286dd82e8b8 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/ts5500_flash.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/ts5500_flash.c @@ -19,13 +19,11 @@ * * Note: * - In order for detection to work, jumper 3 must be set. - * - Drive A and B use a proprietary FTL from General Software which isn't - * supported as of yet so standard drives can't be mounted; you can create - * your own (e.g. jffs) file system. + * - Drive A and B use the resident flash disk (RFD) flash translation layer. * - If you have created your own jffs file system and the bios overwrites * it during boot, try disabling Drive A: and B: in the boot order. * - * $Id: ts5500_flash.c,v 1.2 2004/11/28 09:40:40 dwmw2 Exp $ + * $Id: ts5500_flash.c,v 1.3 2005/06/16 08:49:30 sean Exp $ */ #include <linux/config.h> |