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2012-09-29mtd: bcm47part driver for BCM47XX chipsetsRafał Miłecki
This driver provides parser detecting partitions on BCM47XX flash memories. It has many differences in comparison to BCM63XX, like: 1) Different CFE with no more trivial MAGICs 2) More partitions types (board_data, ML, POT) 3) Supporting more than 1 flash on a device which resulted in decision of writing new parser. It uses generic mtd interface and was successfully tested with Netgear WNDR4500 router which has 2 flash memories: serial one and NAND one. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-06-01mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in KconfigFrank Svendsboe
MTD_OF_PARTS and the default setting is not working due to using 'Y' instead of 'y', introduced in commit d6137badeff1ef64b4e0092ec249ebdeaeb3ff37. This made our board, and possibly other boards using DTS defined partitions and not having CONFIG_MTD_OF_PARTS=y defined in the defconfig, fail to mount root. Signed-off-by: Frank Svendsboe <frank.svendsboe@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-03-30Merge tag 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull MTD changes from David Woodhouse: - Artem's cleanup of the MTD API continues apace. - Fixes and improvements for ST FSMC and SuperH FLCTL NAND, amongst others. - More work on DiskOnChip G3, new driver for DiskOnChip G4. - Clean up debug/warning printks in JFFS2 to use pr_<level>. Fix up various trivial conflicts, largely due to changes in calling conventions for things like dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() (new inline wrapper to hide new parameter, clashing with rewrite of previously last parameter that used to be an 'append' flag, and is now a bitmap of 'unsigned long flags'). (Also some header file fallout - like so many merges this merge window - and silly conflicts with sparse fixes) * tag 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (120 commits) mtd: docg3 add protection against concurrency mtd: docg3 refactor cascade floors structure mtd: docg3 increase write/erase timeout mtd: docg3 fix inbound calculations mtd: nand: gpmi: fix function annotations mtd: phram: fix section mismatch for phram_setup mtd: unify initialization of erase_info->fail_addr mtd: support ONFI multi lun NAND mtd: sm_ftl: fix typo in major number. mtd: add device-tree support to spear_smi mtd: spear_smi: Remove default partition information from driver mtd: Add device-tree support to fsmc_nand mtd: fix section mismatch for doc_probe_device mtd: nand/fsmc: Remove sparse warnings and errors mtd: nand/fsmc: Add DMA support mtd: nand/fsmc: Access the NAND device word by word whenever possible mtd: nand/fsmc: Use dev_err to report error scenario mtd: nand/fsmc: Use devm routines mtd: nand/fsmc: Modify fsmc driver to accept nand timing parameters via platform mtd: fsmc_nand: add pm callbacks to support hibernation ...
2012-03-27mtd: mtdoops: kill Kconfig usage instructionsBrian Norris
The mtdoops usage instructions found in Kconfig have been incorrect since: commit 2e386e4bac90554887e73d6f342e845185b33fc3 mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper mtdoops no longer uses a console. Now, if you build it into your kernel, you add something like the following to your command line to select partition X as your logging partition: mtdoops.mtddev=X Anyway, it seems better to leave the documentation out of Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-03-25MTD: Relax dependenciesRichard Weinberger
CONFIG_GENERIC_IO is just enough for the basic MTD stuff. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
2012-01-09mtd: maps: bcm963xx-flash: make CFE partition parsing an mtd parserJonas Gorski
Recent BCM63XX devices support a variety of flash types (parallel, SPI, NAND) and share the partition layout. To prevent code duplication make the CFE partition parsing code a stand alone mtd parser to allow SPI or NAND flash drivers to use it. Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-11-07Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (226 commits) mtd: tests: annotate as DANGEROUS in Kconfig mtd: tests: don't use mtd0 as a default mtd: clean up usage of MTD_DOCPROBE_ADDRESS jffs2: add compr=lzo and compr=zlib options jffs2: implement mount option parsing and compression overriding mtd: nand: initialize ops.mode mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name mtd: m25p80: don't probe device which has status of 'disabled' mtd: nand_h1900 never worked mtd: Add DiskOnChip G3 support mtd: m25p80: add EON flash EN25Q32B into spi flash id table mtd: mark block device queue as non-rotational mtd: r852: make r852_pm_ops static mtd: m25p80: add support for at25df321a spi data flash mtd: mxc_nand: preset_v1_v2: unlock all NAND flash blocks mtd: nand: switch `check_pattern()' to standard `memcmp()' mtd: nand: invalidate cache on unaligned reads mtd: nand: do not scan bad blocks with NAND_BBT_NO_OOB set mtd: nand: wait to set BBT version mtd: nand: scrub BBT on ECC errors ... Fix up trivial conflicts: - arch/arm/mach-at91/board-usb-a9260.c Merged into board-usb-a926x.c - drivers/mtd/maps/lantiq-flash.c add_mtd_partitions -> mtd_device_register vs changed to use mtd_device_parse_register.
2011-10-30mtd: tests: annotate as DANGEROUS in KconfigWolfram Sang
The tests may erase mtd devices, so annotate them as suggested per coding style and add a paragraph to the help text as well. Artem: amended the help test a bit. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@intel.com>
2011-09-27doc: fix broken referencesPaul Bolle
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-11mtd: remove CONFIG_MTD_DEBUGBrian Norris
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
2011-09-11mtd: make ofpart buildable as a separate moduleDmitry Eremin-Solenikov
As ofpart now uses a standard mtd partitions parser interface, make it buildable as a separate module. Also provide MODULE_DESCRIPTION and MODULE_AUTHOR for this module. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
2011-05-27Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (97 commits) mtd: kill CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS mtd: remove add_mtd_partitions, add_mtd_device and friends mtd: convert remaining users to mtd_device_register() mtd: samsung onenand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: omap2 onenand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: txx9ndfmc: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: tmio_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: socrates_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: sharpsl: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: s3c2410 nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: ppchameleonevb: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: orion_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: omap2: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: nomadik_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: ndfc: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: mxc_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: mpc5121_nfc: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: jz4740_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: h1910: convert to mtd_device_register() mtd: fsmc_nand: convert to mtd_device_register() ... Fixed up trivial conflicts in - drivers/mtd/maps/integrator-flash.c: removed in ARM tree - drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c: addition of afs partition probe type clashing with removal of CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2011-05-25mtd: kill CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONSJamie Iles
Now that none of the drivers use CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS we can remove it from Kconfig and the last remaining uses. Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-05-25mtd: always build partitioning supportJamie Iles
There are very few situations where MTD partitioning is not required, and the benefit in code size reduction by making this configurable does not warrant the level of ifdeffery needed. Artem: this patch is not final - we just make sure that mtd partitions are always compiled in, and at the end of the series we'll kill MTD_PARTITIONS altogether. Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-05-20ARM: 6906/1: MTD: Remove integrator-flashMarc Zyngier
As there is now no in-tree user of integrator-flash, remove it completely. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-25mtdswap: kill strict error handling optionYang Ruirui
As Artem Bityutskiy suggested: this option is controversial, as we do not really have any prove it is useful. And it is too much to have it as a config parameter. So, better kill it and let the real mtdswap users decide whether it is needed or not. Signed-off-by: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-03-11mtd: Add mtdswap block driverJarkko Lavinen
Add a driver for allowing an mtd device to be used as a block device for swapping. The block device is volatile, and the mapping of swapped pages is not stored on flash. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com> Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11mtd: drop MTD_CONCAT from Kconfig entirelyDmitry Eremin-Solenikov
As there are no more dependencies on MTD_CONCAT or CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT, drop this entry from Kconfig entirely. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11mtd: make MTD_CONCAT support mandatoryDmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Move mtdconcat to be an integral part of the mtd core. It's a tiny bit of code, which bears 'say Y if you don't know what to do' note in the Kconfig. OTOH there are several ugly ifdefs depending on the MTD_CONCAT. So, making MTD_CONCAT support mandatory will allow us to clean up code a lot. Kconfig entry is changed to be a bool defaulting to Y, so all code pieces depending on it, will have MTD_CONCAT Kconfig symbol and CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT define. This will be removed in one of next patches. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-12-03mtd: Fix MTD_OF_PARTS for all arch and minor tidy of MTD_PARTITIONSGrant Likely
MTD_OF_PARTS should be possible on all architectures, not just powerpc and microblaze, and it probably should not be a user selectable option. Neither does it need to be in a separate module. Also, rework MTD Kconfig to group options dependant on MTD_PARTITIONS into a if/endif block. Do the same for MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-08-06mtd: update description on sm_ftlMaxim Levitsky
I think that scary description can go now... Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-08-02mtd: remove redundant dependency checks in Kconfig filesKyle Spaans
Look for dependency checks for "FOO" when inside of an "if FOO" block and remove them. Signed-off-by: Kyle Spaans <kspaans@uwaterloo.ca> Reviewed-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-03-26mtd: sm_ftl: remove CONFIG_SM_FTL_MUSEUM and make it always onMaxim Levitsky
The sole purpose of this setting was to avoid a dependency on MTD_NAND. Now that we can depend on MTD_NAND_ECC without pulling in all the rest of the NAND code, we might as well do so unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-03-26mtd: nand: split out ECC moduleMaxim Levitsky
This way drivers could use ecc routines without depedency on whole nand Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-03-08mtd: Make SM_FTL depend on MTD_NANDDavid Woodhouse
Randy Dunlap observed a build problem with the following config: CONFIG_SM_FTL=y CONFIG_SM_FTL_MUSEUM=y CONFIG_MTD_NAND=m The ECC calculation routines are then built as a module, but referenced by the sm_ftl code in the kernel, resulting in a build failure. The simple fix is to make CONFIG_SM_FTL depend on MTD_NAND unconditionally -- it's pointless without hardware support anyway. Fix some typos which Randy pointed out, too. Reported-By: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-02-26mtd: Add new SmartMedia/xD FTLMaxim Levitsky
This implements new readwrite SmartMedia/xd FTL. mtd driver must have support proper ECC and badblock verification based on oob parts for 512 bytes nand. Also mtd driver must define read_oob and write_oob, which are used to read and write both data and oob together. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits) microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:" microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing. microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h. microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction ...
2009-09-21mtd: Enable Open Firmware initialisation of MTD devices and maps for MicroBlazeJohn Williams
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2009-09-19mtd: fix order of TEST/PARTITIONS kconfig optionsMike Frysinger
The MTD_TEST config option was added in between the MTD_PARTITIONS config and its dependent options which causes the resulting menu system to display incorrectly as MTD_TEST does not depend on MTD_PARTITIONS. So move it up a few lines where it won't cause a problem. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-06-12trivial: mtd: fix Kconfig comment about 'armflash'Paulius Zaleckas
The real 'armflash' map driver is selected by CONFIG_MTD_ARM_INTEGRATOR Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-05Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/mtd-tests-2.6David Woodhouse
Conflicts: drivers/mtd/Makefile
2009-01-05[MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfigAlexey Korolev
We have two components to manage LPDDR flash memories in Linux. 1. It is a driver for chip probing and reading its capabilities 2. It is a device operations driver. Signed-off-by: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-12-10MTD: add MTD tests to compilationArtem Bityutskiy
Add MTD tests to Kconfig and Makefiles. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-08-01[MTD] dataflash OTP supportDavid Brownell
Now that we can tell when we have one of the newer DataFlash chips, optionally expose the 128 bytes of OTP memory they provide. Tested on at45db642 revision B and D chips. Switch mtdchar over to a generic HAVE_MTD_OTP flag instead of adding another #ifdef for each type of chip whose driver has OTP support. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-06-04MTD/JFFS2: remove CVS keywordsAdrian Bunk
Once upon a time, the MTD repository was using CVS. This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS keywords from the MTD code. This also includes code that printed them to the user. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-04-22[MTD] AR7 mtd partition mapMatteo Croce
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-03[MTD] Factor out OF partition support from the NOR driver.Scott Wood
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-12-03[MTD] mtdoops: Document usage in KconfigPeter Korsgaard
Add usage instructions to Kconfig for mtdoops driver. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-06-28[MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD deviceRichard Purdie
Kernel oops and panic messages are invaluable when debugging crashes. These messages often don't make it to flash based logging methods (say a syslog on jffs2) due to the overheads involved in writing to flash. This patch allows you to turn an MTD partition into a circular log buffer where kernel oops and panic messages are written to. The messages are obtained by registering a console driver and checking oops_in_progress. Erases are performed in advance to maximise the chances of a saving messages. To activate it, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel commandline (where x is the mtd device number to use). Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-10[S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.Martin Schwidefsky
Add "depends on HAS_IOMEM" to a number of menus to make them disappear for s390 which does not have I/O memory. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/mtd/Kconfig Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-04-27UBI: Unsorted Block ImagesArtem B. Bityutskiy
UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling across the whole flash device. In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks. More information may be found at http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html Partitioning/Re-partitioning An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit. UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums. Bad eraseblocks handling UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this. Scrubbing On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation, sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate, correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users. Erase Counts UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm itself is exchangeable. Booting from NAND For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This "initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to load and execute the next boot phase. Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume. UBI volumes vs. static partitions UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions: * both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions; * both support three basic operations - read, write, erase. But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional static MTD partitions: * there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI volumes, so the user should not care about this; * there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes. So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed restrictions. Where can it be found? Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD gits. What are the applications for? The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content analysis after a system has crashed.. Who did UBI? The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem. Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements. Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
2007-04-19Use menuconfig objects: MTDJan Engelhardt
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once instead of going through all options. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-11-29[MTD] add MTD_BLKDEVS Kconfig optionJosh Boyer
Add a MTD_BLKDEVS Kconfig option to cleanup the makefile a bit Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
2006-10-09[MTD] SSFDC must depend on BLOCKAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_SSFDC=m, CONFIG_BLOCK=n: <-- snip --> ... CC [M] drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c:40: warning: ‘struct request’ declared inside parameter list /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c:40: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c: In function ‘do_blktrans_request’: /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c:45: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ... make[3]: *** [drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o] Error 1 <-- snip --> Bug report by Jesper Juhl. This patch also removes a pointless "default n" from the SSFDC option. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-30[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]David Howells
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-23[MTD] Fix dependencies with CONFIG_MTD=mDavid Woodhouse
CMDLINEPARTS shouldn't be selectable, and neither should SSFDC, which can be a tristate anyway. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-22[MTD] Add SSFDC (SmartMedia) read-only translation layerClaudio Lanconelli
Signed-off-by: Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: trivial fixes in Makefile kbuild: adding symbols in Kconfig and defconfig to TAGS kbuild: replace abort() with exit(1) kbuild: support for %.symtypes files kbuild: fix silentoldconfig recursion kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them kbuild: kill some false positives from modpost kbuild: export-symbol usage report generator kbuild: fix make -rR breakage kbuild: append -dirty for updated but uncommited changes kbuild: append git revision for all untagged commits kbuild: fix module.symvers parsing in modpost kbuild: ignore make's built-in rules & variables kbuild: bugfix with initramfs kbuild: modpost build fix kbuild: check license compatibility when building modules kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c kbuild: add dependency on kernel.release to the package targets kbuild: `make kernelrelease' speedup kconfig: KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG ...
2006-06-09kconfig: remove leading whitespace in menu promptsRoman Zippel
This removes all the leading whitespace kconfig now warns about. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>