Re: non volatile ram disk

[Erez Doron]

the exact log i get:

Creating 3 MTD partitions on "SA1100 flash":      
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "bootldr"
mtd: Giving out device 0 to bootldr 
0x00040000-0x02000000 : "root" 
mtd: Giving out device 1 to root 
0xc2000000-0xc4000000 : "rd" 
mtd: partition "rd" is out of reach -- disabled

notes:
1. the flash is at physical adress 0-0x1ffffff (32mb)
2. the ram is at physical adress 0xc0000000-0xc3ffffff
i tried to map an mtd device to the second part of the ram, but got
"partition is out of reach"

any idea ?

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 15:42, Erez Doron wrote:
> hi
> 
> thanks for replying,
> 
> I already tried to map an MTD to physical memory, but got an error and
> an mtd with size 0
> 
> dou you know why ?
> 
> regards
> erez
> 
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 15:41, Peter Wächtler wrote:
> > Erez Doron schrieb:
> > > 
> > > hi
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a way to make a ramdisk which is not erased on reboot
> > > this is for use with ipaq/linux.
> > > 
> > > i tought of booting with mem=32m and map a block device to the rest of
> > > the 32M ram i have.
> > > 
> > > the probelm is that giving mem=32m to the kernel will cause the kernel
> > > to map only the first 32m of physical memory to virtual one, so using
> > > __pa(ptr) on the top 32m causes a kernel oops.
> > > 
> > > any idea ?
> > > 
> > 
> > a MTD is the way to go, which uses the "reserved" mem area. 
> > I assume that the RAM is battery backed
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