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authorJoe Schaack <jschaack@xes-inc.com>2013-02-21 16:29:45 -0600
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2013-04-05 12:05:53 +0100
commit05ff8c258c76dd469232a03ec8d45f7e7267e0ac (patch)
treebbecfe3fc604264c90c6037477120d520d594ef4 /Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd
parente66e280c36e09e4573089862e7dc2ade9e680088 (diff)
mtd: ofpart: support partitions of 4 GiB and larger
Previously, partitions were limited to less than 4 GiB in size because the address and size were read as 32-bit values. Add support for 64-bit values to support devices of 4 GiB and larger. Signed-off-by: Joe Schaack <jschaack@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt36
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
index 6e1f61f1e789..9315ac96b49b 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of a flash are
used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such
as RedBoot.
-#address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the mtd device and be
-equal to 1.
+#address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the mtd device. There are
+two valid values for both:
+<1>: for partitions that require a single 32-bit cell to represent their
+ size/address (aka the value is below 4 GiB)
+<2>: for partitions that require two 32-bit cells to represent their
+ size/address (aka the value is 4 GiB or greater).
Required properties:
- reg : The partition's offset and size within the mtd bank.
@@ -36,3 +40,31 @@ flash@0 {
reg = <0x0100000 0x200000>;
};
};
+
+flash@1 {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+
+ /* a 4 GiB partition */
+ partition@0 {
+ label = "filesystem";
+ reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
+ };
+};
+
+flash@2 {
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+
+ /* an 8 GiB partition */
+ partition@0 {
+ label = "filesystem #1";
+ reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x2 0x00000000>;
+ };
+
+ /* a 4 GiB partition */
+ partition@200000000 {
+ label = "filesystem #2";
+ reg = <0x2 0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
+ };
+};