Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:50:25 +0200

> So, what you're suggesting is a subnode for each described partition?

I'm saying this is a reasonable way to describe the regions
of flash the firmware itself cares about.

This isn't anything new; it is done like this on some
Apple systems, for example.

> Seems an awfully verbose way of going about it,

Not verbose, but flexible, and in line with everything
else about the device tree.

> and I don't see what
> it buys us over the partitions/partition-names pair of properties.

It is extensible.  It makes parsing trivial.  It
represents a flash partition in a way similar to how
a "whole" flash device is represented.

Segher