Re: PCI NVRAM Memory Card

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Eric W. Biederman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Mike Jadon <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > My company has released a PCI NVRAM memory card but we haven't developed a Linux
> > 
> > driver for it yet.  We want the driver to be open to developers to build upon.
> > Is there a specific path we should follow with this being our goal?  
> 
> You might want to check out the development of the mtd subsystem.
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
> 
> This is probably what you want to write a driver for for your NVRAM PCI card.

Not really.

In their case, it's a bunch of standard SDRAM on a PCI card with a
battery backup. It's not flash.

A block device is all that's needed.

JE