Convert the PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver from an MTD driver to a plain block
device driver.
The ps3vram driver exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a block device
suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved using a local
cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU.
The new driver is ca. 50% faster for reading, and ca. 10% for writing.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add ps3vram driver, which exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a MTD
device suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved
using a local cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS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>
This reverts commit 340ea370c2.
It's not needed given the other m25p80 patch (which now handles
at26 "dataflash" as well as most other standard SPI flash chips),
and requires a controller driver that won't be merged upstream
(supplanted by drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c) ... the submitter of
that at91_dataflash26.c driver concurred.
Requested by David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Add support for AT26Fxxx dataflash devices. These devices have a quite different
commandset than the AT45xxx chips, which are handled by at91_dataflash.c, so a
combined driver turned out to be more ugly than useful.
Tested only on AT26F004.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Remove the blkmtd driver.
- An alternative exists (block2mtd) that hasn't had bug report for > 1 year.
- Most embedded people tend to use ancient kernels with custom patches from
mtd cvs and elsewhere, so the 1 year warning period neither helps nor hurts
them too much.
- It's in the way of klibc. The problems caused by pulling blkmtd support
are fairly low, while the problems caused by delaying klibc can be fairly
substantial. At best, this would be a severe burden on hpa's time.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This was originally a driver for the ST M25P80 SPI flash. It's been
updated slightly to handle other M25P series chips.
For many of these chips, the specific type could be probed, but for now
this just requires static setup with flash_platform_data that lists the
chip type (size, format) and any default partitioning to use.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mike Lavender <mike@steroidmicros.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a conversion of the AT91rm9200 DataFlash MTD driver to use the
lightweight SPI framework, and no longer be AT91-specific. It compiles
down to less than 3KBytes on ARM.
The driver allows board-specific init code to provide platform_data with
the relevant MTD partitioning information, and hotplugs.
This version has been lightly tested. Its parent at91_dataflash driver has
been pretty well banged on, although kernel.org JFFS2 dataflash support was
acting broken the last time I tried it.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Geert Uytterhoeven