Re: Flash and nvram

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:32:46AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> For ramdisk exceution, non-volatile storage is needed. 
> PMC Flash(1M) and NVRAM(8K, I guess) on sandpoint X3 can be used for that
> purpose. 
> I can't find proper features for this. 
> Is it possible to use flash or nvram just like a general file system after
> "mount".

Not quite.  I do have some code somewhere that needs to be cleaned up
and integrated that would allow some access to flash like a filesystem.

There is currently no support for either right now, though.  The
nvram should probably have a simple device for access.  I'm not
quite sure how to talk to this--it's not something I've really
looked at yet.  I expect that both DINK and ppcboot do read/write
it, though.

-allen

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