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Linus Torvalds
623ff7739e MTD merge for 3.4
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>.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

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
  ...
2012-03-30 17:31:56 -07:00
Brian Norris
f0e0c09b88 mtd: mtdoops: kill Kconfig usage instructions
The mtdoops usage instructions found in Kconfig have been incorrect
since:

    commit 2e386e4bac
    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>
2012-03-27 00:15:37 +01:00
Richard Weinberger
9310da0bbb MTD: Relax dependencies
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>
2012-03-25 00:29:56 +01:00
Jonas Gorski
70a3c167c4 mtd: maps: bcm963xx-flash: make CFE partition parsing an mtd parser
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>
2012-01-09 18:15:31 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
e0d65113a7 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* 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.
2011-11-07 09:11:16 -08:00
Wolfram Sang
48e546b7f2 mtd: tests: annotate as DANGEROUS in Kconfig
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>
2011-10-30 22:33:30 +02:00
Paul Bolle
395cf9691d doc: fix broken references
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>
2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Brian Norris
87ed114bb2 mtd: remove CONFIG_MTD_DEBUG
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
2011-09-11 15:02:16 +03:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
d6137badef mtd: make ofpart buildable as a separate module
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>
2011-09-11 15:02:13 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
29a6ccca38 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* 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
2011-05-27 20:06:53 -07:00
Jamie Iles
6a8a98b22b mtd: kill CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
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>
2011-05-25 02:25:35 +01:00
Jamie Iles
5fcb033159 mtd: always build partitioning support
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>
2011-05-25 02:12:09 +01:00
Marc Zyngier
adf0040096 ARM: 6906/1: MTD: Remove integrator-flash
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>
2011-05-20 22:27:20 +01:00
Yang Ruirui
e21fa86ad0 mtdswap: kill strict error handling option
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>
2011-03-25 17:04:18 +02:00
Jarkko Lavinen
a321590246 mtd: Add mtdswap block driver
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>
2011-03-11 14:22:46 +00:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
f53fdebcc3 mtd: drop MTD_CONCAT from Kconfig entirely
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>
2011-03-11 14:22:41 +00:00
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
4d42942cff mtd: make MTD_CONCAT support mandatory
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>
2011-03-11 14:22:40 +00:00
Grant Likely
b7b6e08f92 mtd: Fix MTD_OF_PARTS for all arch and minor tidy of MTD_PARTITIONS
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>
2010-12-03 16:25:56 +00:00
Maxim Levitsky
6f92355c6e mtd: update description on sm_ftl
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>
2010-08-06 09:21:40 +01:00
Kyle Spaans
8c1a1158c9 mtd: remove redundant dependency checks in Kconfig files
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>
2010-08-02 09:01:42 +01:00
Maxim Levitsky
01de69c2b0 mtd: sm_ftl: remove CONFIG_SM_FTL_MUSEUM and make it always on
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>
2010-03-26 15:28:59 +00:00
Maxim Levitsky
e5f710cfc6 mtd: nand: split out ECC module
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>
2010-03-26 15:26:27 +00:00
David Woodhouse
7de6f798e1 mtd: Make SM_FTL depend on MTD_NAND
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>
2010-03-08 18:45:06 -08:00
Maxim Levitsky
7d17c02a01 mtd: Add new SmartMedia/xD FTL
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>
2010-02-26 19:06:50 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
a6b49cb210 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* '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
  ...
2009-09-24 09:01:44 -07:00
John Williams
c2a32f0d75 mtd: Enable Open Firmware initialisation of MTD devices and maps for MicroBlaze
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2009-09-21 14:29:20 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
80f53da0ac mtd: fix order of TEST/PARTITIONS kconfig options
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>
2009-09-19 11:53:31 -07:00
Paulius Zaleckas
0b1b51f50e trivial: mtd: fix Kconfig comment about 'armflash'
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>
2009-06-12 18:01:45 +02:00
David Woodhouse
572acc4127 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/mtd-tests-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/mtd/Makefile
2009-01-05 16:24:55 +00:00
Alexey Korolev
60f26520e7 [MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfig
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>
2009-01-05 13:58:47 +01:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9faa8153be MTD: add MTD tests to compilation
Add MTD tests to Kconfig and Makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-10 17:00:44 +02:00
David Brownell
34a82443b7 [MTD] dataflash OTP support
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>
2008-08-01 21:47:47 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
59018b6d2a MTD/JFFS2: remove CVS keywords
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>
2008-06-04 17:50:17 +01:00
Matteo Croce
f0797881d5 [MTD] AR7 mtd partition map
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>
2008-04-22 20:48:12 +01:00
Scott Wood
9a310d2119 [MTD] Factor out OF partition support from the NOR driver.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-02-03 18:06:48 +11:00
Peter Korsgaard
256331d53a [MTD] mtdoops: Document usage in Kconfig
Add usage instructions to Kconfig for mtdoops driver.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-12-03 14:00:06 +00:00
Richard Purdie
4b23aff083 [MTD] oops and panic message logging to MTD device
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>
2007-06-28 20:18:02 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
e25df1205f [S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.
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>
2007-05-10 15:46:07 +02:00
David Woodhouse
d1da4e50e5 Merge branch 'master' of 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>
2007-04-27 19:16:19 +01:00
Artem B. Bityutskiy
801c135ce7 UBI: Unsorted Block Images
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>
2007-04-27 14:23:33 +03:00
Jan Engelhardt
ec98c681a5 Use menuconfig objects: MTD
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>
2007-04-19 16:21:41 -05:00
Josh Boyer
f6a7ecb18d [MTD] add MTD_BLKDEVS Kconfig option
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>
2006-11-29 16:58:15 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
1ef93a0f66 [MTD] SSFDC must depend on BLOCK
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>
2006-10-09 07:25:28 +01:00
David Howells
9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
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>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
David Woodhouse
892e4fba1c [MTD] Fix dependencies with CONFIG_MTD=m
CMDLINEPARTS shouldn't be selectable, and neither should SSFDC, which
can be a tristate anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-23 10:24:36 +01:00
Claudio Lanconelli
51197abf29 [MTD] Add SSFDC (SmartMedia) read-only translation layer
Signed-off-by: Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-22 11:01:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2a2ed2db35 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* 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
  ...
2006-06-26 11:05:15 -07:00
Roman Zippel
e55a3e8aed kconfig: remove leading whitespace in menu prompts
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>
2006-06-09 16:28:07 +02:00
Egry Gábor
4992a9e888 Trivial typo fixes in Kconfig files (MTD).
Signed-off-by: Egry Gábor <gaboregry@t-online.hu>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-12 17:35:02 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
97894cda57 [MTD] core: Clean up trailing white spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-07 13:37:38 +01:00