| CFI or JEDEC memory-mapped NOR flash, MTD-RAM (NVRAM...) |
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| Flash chips (Memory Technology Devices) are often used for solid state |
| file systems on embedded devices. |
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| - compatible : should contain the specific model of mtd chip(s) |
| used, if known, followed by either "cfi-flash", "jedec-flash", |
| "mtd-ram" or "mtd-rom". |
| - reg : Address range(s) of the mtd chip(s) |
| It's possible to (optionally) define multiple "reg" tuples so that |
| non-identical chips can be described in one node. |
| - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the bank. Equal to the |
| device width times the number of interleaved chips. |
| - device-width : (optional) Width of a single mtd chip. If |
| omitted, assumed to be equal to 'bank-width'. |
| - #address-cells, #size-cells : Must be present if the device has |
| sub-nodes representing partitions (see below). In this case |
| both #address-cells and #size-cells must be equal to 1. |
| - no-unaligned-direct-access: boolean to disable the default direct |
| mapping of the flash. |
| On some platforms (e.g. MPC5200) a direct 1:1 mapping may cause |
| problems with JFFS2 usage, as the local bus (LPB) doesn't support |
| unaligned accesses as implemented in the JFFS2 code via memcpy(). |
| By defining "no-unaligned-direct-access", the flash will not be |
| exposed directly to the MTD users (e.g. JFFS2) any more. |
| - linux,mtd-name: allow to specify the mtd name for retro capability with |
| physmap-flash drivers as boot loader pass the mtd partition via the old |
| device name physmap-flash. |
| - use-advanced-sector-protection: boolean to enable support for the |
| advanced sector protection (Spansion: PPB - Persistent Protection |
| Bits) locking. |
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| For JEDEC compatible devices, the following additional properties |
| are defined: |
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| - vendor-id : Contains the flash chip's vendor id (1 byte). |
| - device-id : Contains the flash chip's device id (1 byte). |
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| For ROM compatible devices (and ROM fallback from cfi-flash), the following |
| additional (optional) property is defined: |
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| - erase-size : The chip's physical erase block size in bytes. |
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| The device tree may optionally contain endianness property. |
| little-endian or big-endian : It Represents the endianness that should be used |
| by the controller to properly read/write data |
| from/to the flash. If this property is missing, |
| the endianness is chosen by the system |
| (potentially based on extra configuration options). |
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| The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the |
| address space. See partition.txt for more detail. |
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| Example: |
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| flash@ff000000 { |
| compatible = "amd,am29lv128ml", "cfi-flash"; |
| reg = <ff000000 01000000>; |
| bank-width = <4>; |
| device-width = <1>; |
| #address-cells = <1>; |
| #size-cells = <1>; |
| fs@0 { |
| label = "fs"; |
| reg = <0 f80000>; |
| }; |
| firmware@f80000 { |
| label ="firmware"; |
| reg = <f80000 80000>; |
| read-only; |
| }; |
| }; |
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| Here an example with multiple "reg" tuples: |
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| flash@f0000000,0 { |
| #address-cells = <1>; |
| #size-cells = <1>; |
| compatible = "intel,PC48F4400P0VB", "cfi-flash"; |
| reg = <0 0x00000000 0x02000000 |
| 0 0x02000000 0x02000000>; |
| bank-width = <2>; |
| partition@0 { |
| label = "test-part1"; |
| reg = <0 0x04000000>; |
| }; |
| }; |
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| An example using SRAM: |
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| sram@2,0 { |
| compatible = "samsung,k6f1616u6a", "mtd-ram"; |
| reg = <2 0 0x00200000>; |
| bank-width = <2>; |
| }; |
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