From: "Rogério Brito" <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:48:14 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428144814.GA14926@ime.usp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F78629F9-59D2-4974-8461-06B7FAC2625D@kernel.crashing.org>
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.
>> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 6:58 Regarding the linkstation defconfig Rogério Brito
2009-04-24 20:05 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-04-24 21:23 ` Rogério Brito
2009-04-24 22:33 ` [PATCH] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig Rogério Brito
2009-04-27 19:29 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 2:27 ` Rogério Brito
2009-04-28 13:16 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 14:48 ` Rogério Brito [this message]
2009-04-28 14:54 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 13:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: updating the linkstation_defconfig Rogério Brito
2009-04-28 13:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: minimizing the configuration of linkstation_defconfig Rogério Brito
2009-05-16 16:04 ` [PATCH] " Rogério Brito
2009-06-11 2:46 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 16:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Rogério Brito
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